Hoffmann v. Wiltscheck’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2014
4 federal appellate · 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 Betlach v. Wayzata Condominium · Lunderberg v. Bierman · Hendrickson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co. · Frey Ex Rel. Frey v. Snelgrove · Tolbert v. Gerber Industries, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plaintiff's indemnification of the settling tortfeasor is the indispensable characteristic of the Pierringer release because it protects the nonsettling defendant from having to pay more than its share of liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Brule“any right [the plaintiff] can establish to recover damages from [the principal] is offset by [the plaintiff's] obligation to repay the same damages.”
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.