Caldwell v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 169 W. Va. 440 - Sydenstricker v. Unipunch Products, Inc. (1982), Pack v. Damon Corp. (2006)
23 federal appellate · 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.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as follows: The general rule of contribution is that one who is compelled to pay or satisfy the whole or to bear more than his aliquot share of the common burden or obligation, upon which several persons are equally liable or which they are bound to discharge, is entitled to contribution against the others to obtain from them payment of their respective shares. [ Caldwell v. Fox, 394 Mich. 401, 417 , 231 N.W.2d 46 (1975) (emphasis added).] Thus, in order to enforce contribution under the revised act, it is necessary that the tortfeasors”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here two or more parties are responsible for an accident which produces a single indivisible injury, each individual wrongdoer may be held liable for the entire amount of the damages and thus each of the defendants shares a common liability with the others that are also responsible for the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a jury may infer the existence of a defective condition from circumstantial evidence alone.”
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.