Bolick v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1997
21 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 Fisher v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · Papenfus v. Shell Oil Co. · Hooyman v. Reeve · Meating v. Tigerton Lumber Co. · Mitchell v. City of Horicon
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether they shall become entitled to credit for payments made under the releases depends upon findings made at the trial with reference to the principles discussed herein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. Collett“It is an elementary principle that where independent torts result in separate injuries, each tort-feasor is separately liable for his own torts.”
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.