O'CONNELL v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2014
13 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 Hendrickson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co. · Inhabitants of Westfield v. Mayo · Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York v. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. · Daly v. Bergstedt · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Dahl
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2. Where such attorney’s fees have been disallowed, the reason is usually that the person seeking attorney’s fees has been required to defend not only claims arising out of the other’s breach of warranty or tortious acts, but also allegations or accusations which encompass separate and independent charges of wrong- - ful acts on his part.” ' 273 Minn, at 96, 140 N.W.2d at 69 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ Tf a party is obliged to defend against the act of another, against whom he has a remedy over, and defends solely and exclusively the act of such other party, and is compelled to defend no misfeasance of his own, he may notify such party of the pend-ency of the suit and may call upon him to defend it; if he fails to defend, then, if liable over, he is liable not only for the amount of damages recovered, but for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in such defense.’ Only in such case is there a right to recover such expenses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who through the tort of another has been required to act in the protection of his interests by bringing or defending an action against a third person is entitled to recover reasonable compensation for loss of time, attorney fees and other expenditures thereby suffered or incurred in the earlier action.”
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.