Panasuk v. Seaton’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2013
2 district · 10 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 Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corp. · Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe · Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha v. Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad Company · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener · Best v. Yerkes
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As noted supra, no case has been found where this rule has been extended to a collision between two motor vehicles. If indemnity were permitted in a case of this nature, it could arise in any action where a third person had a possible cause of action against two motorists. Each motorist could claim indemnity by alleging gross negligence of the other. This would result in the undesirable situation suggested by the Wisconsin court in Jacobs. The plaintiff in this action in order to recover from the defendants must of course prove that the defendants were negligent and that their negligence was a proximate cause of plaintiff's injury. If this is not established, there is no liability, and no question of possible indemnity could arise. It is my conclusion that this is not a case where the principles of indemnity are applicable."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The rule is well settled in Montana that, `if the concurrent negligence of two or more persons causes an injury to a third person, they are jointly and severally liable, and the injured person may sue them jointly or severally, and recover against one or all'. [Citing cases] * * * the Montana court also recognized the general rule that `one of the several wrongdoers cannot recover against another wrongdoer although he may have been compelled to pay all the damages for the wrong done.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where the parties are not in pari delicto, and an injury results from the act of one party whose negligence is the primary, active and proximate cause of the injury, and another party, who is not negligent or whose negligence is remote, passive and secondary, is nevertheless exposed to liability by the acts of the first party, the first party may be liable to the second party for the full amount of damages incurred by such acts."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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