Edwards v. Hamill’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Teachy v. Coble Dairies, Inc. (1982), 161 N.C. App. 34 - Kaleel Builders, Inc. v. Ashby (2003)
50 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 Greene v. Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, Inc. · Hunsucker v. High Point Bending & Chair Co. · Newsome v. Surratt · Bost v. . Metcalfe · Freeman v. . Thompson
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) . . . are jointly and severally liable to the plaintiff . . . and (2) either (a) one has been passively negligent but is exposed to liability through the active negligence of the other or (b) one alone has done the act which produced the injury but the other is derivatively liable for the negligence of the former.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“rights of contribution and indemnity are mutually inconsistent; the former assumes joint fault, the latter only derivative fault.”
1 later decision 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.