Sweep v. Lear Jet Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 457 · 1969
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2020
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Bradshaw v. Baylor University · Green v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Riley v. Industrial Finance Service Co. · Texas Cities Gas Co. v. Dickens · Green v. Rudsenske
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he collateral source rule and the joint tort-feasor rule are capable of compatible coexistence only if their differing fields of operation are recognized and respected. The collateral source rule purports to place upon the defendant-tort-feasor the full burden of his wrongdoing. If, however, the plaintiff’s injury is the product of the combined wrongdoings of the defendant and a settling joint tort-feasor, the credit rule inter cedes to ensure that the defendant will not be burdened with full restitution for an injury which ... by settlement of a tort claim, the plaintiff implicitly attributes in part to the settling party.”
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.