Larson MacHine, Inc. v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc. (2009), Keck v. American Employment Agency, Inc. (1983)
17 federal appellate · 67 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 Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Rx Rel. Schriefer · Schubert v. August Schubert Wagon Co. · Lunderberg v. Bierman · Chapman Chemical Co. v. Taylor · Hill v. Wilson
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule of law that the indemnitee on an implied covenant for indemnity ... cannot recover ... upon a mere showing that [he] has incurred liability, but he must show that he has suffered actual loss by payment or satisfaction of a judgment or by other payment under compulsion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,005 Don Farley Robert Mendenhall v. William R. Henson, Jr. Paul M. Henson Bowes Lyon Resources Ltd. National Transport Services, Inc., Westark Specialties, Inc., Don Farley Robert Mendenhall v. William R. Henson, Jr., Paul M. Henson, Bowes Lyon Resources Ltd. National Transport Services, Inc. Westark Specialties, Inc. · Carpetland of Northwest Arkansas, Inc. v. Howard“* * * the doctrine of indemnity is based upon the equitable principles of restitution which permit one who is compelled to pay money, which in justice ought to be paid by another, to recover sums so paid unless the payor is barred by the wrongful nature of his own conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n no case is the connection between an original act of negligence and an injury broken by an intervening act of negligence of another if a person of ordinary sagacity and experience, acquainted with all the circumstances, could have reasonably anticipated that the intervening event might, not improbably, but in the natural and ordinary course of things, follow his act of negligence or if the misconduct is of a character which, according to the usual experience of mankind, is calculated to invite or induce the intervention of some subsequent cause, an intervening cause will not excuse the original misconduct but will be held to be the result of it, and that the original act or omission will not be considered too remote to be a proximate cause if, according to the usual experience of mankind, the result ought to have been apprehended; and that the test is in the probably injurious consequences which were to be anticipated, not in the subsequent event and agencies which might arise. [Citations omitted.] The intervening act or omission of a third person is not a superseding cause when the original actor’s negligent conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about an injury, if the actor, at the time of his negligent conduct realized that a third person might so act or if the intervening act is a normal response to a situation created by the actor’s conduct and the manner in which it is done is not extraordinarily negligent. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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