Dale v. Whiteman’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Kosters v. Seven-Up Co. (1979), Henry Beck Company v. Fort Wayne Structural Steel Company (1983)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This right of indemnity . . . exists independently of statute, and whether or not contractual relations exit [sic] between the parties, and whether or not the negligent person owed the other a special or particular legal duty not to be negligent.” 202 N.W.2d at 800 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to perform a certain service or furnish a product to the other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.