Morris v. Kospelich’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Dunn v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1981), Certain Underwriters At Lloyd's v. United States (1975)
6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McLaughlin v. Braswell · Morris v. Kospelich · Beneficial Finance Co. v. Lathrop
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the joint tortfeasor requesting contribution proves that a tort was in fact committed, that the defendant was solidarily liable with him for the amount compromised, and that the amount paid was not in excess of the damage inflicted, he may collect his pro rata share from the other joint tortfeasor by virtue of a separate suit [footnote omitted; emphasis supplied; quoting the findings of the appellate court at 206 So.2d 155 at 158 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.