Sziber v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2014
5 federal appellate · 6 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of contribution between joint tortfeasors arises at the time of the ... acts. Until one of the joint tortfeasors pays more than his proportionate share of the underlying claim, the right remains contingent, subordinate and inchoate. When a tortfeasor pays more than his proportionate share, the right ripen[s] into a cause of action, [citations omitted] [emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The nature of the newly accrued cause of action [i.e. contribution] is not dependent on whether the obligation discharged resulted from contract or tort. The cause of action that accrues depends not whit upon the origin of liability. It is enough that joint liability from whatever source exists ...”
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.