Huggins v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.2d 486 · 1964
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Centerior Service Company v. Acme Scrap Iron & Metal Corporation (1998), In re N-500L Cases (1982)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Hormel v. Helvering · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Helvering v. Wood · Debt v. Wyer · Benatar v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he principle of contribution is founded ... upon the principles of equity and natural justice, which require that those who are under a common obligation or burden shall bear it in equal proportions and one party shall not be subject to bear more than his just share to the advantage of his coobligor.... [Wjhile a judgment is conclusive on this issue it is not necessary that it be proved in that way. If a judgment has not been rendered, the validity of the claim against both of the parties can be determined by the Court in the action seeking contribution."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As a matter of procedure, Rule 14 does not require that the third party defendant be liable to the original plaintiff in order for the original defendant to proceed with his claim against a third party-defendant and recover judgment thereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.