John Griffiths & Son Co. v. National Fireproofing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably 37 Ill. 2d 273 - Miller v. DeWitt (1967), 104 Ill. 2d 444 - Simmons v. Union Electric Co. (1984)
22 federal appellate · 70 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 Rosen v. United States · Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha v. Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad Company · Messersmith v. . American Fidelity Co. · Chicago City v. Robbins · Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. v. Kendall
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the relation of two persons to the performance of work is such that both may be liable to a third person for an injury resulting from the work, there is no public policy which prohibits either from indemnifying the other against loss arising from positive acts of negligence by the indemnitor. Where one of them is only passively negligent but is exposed to liability through the positive acts and actual negligence of the other, the parties are not in equal fault as to each other though both are equally liable to the injured person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The further general principle is announced, however, in many cases, that where one does the act which produces the injury, and the other does not join in the act but is thereby exposed to liability and suffers damage, the latter may recover against the principal delinquent, and the law will inquire into the real delinquency, and place the ultimate liability upon him whose fault was the primary cause of the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winston v. State
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.