Collins v. Throckmorton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2010
1 district · 12 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 Larsen v. Romeo · 32 Del. Ch. 401 - Equitable Trust Co. v. Gallagher · 60 F. Supp. 573 - Superior Tube Co. v. Delaware Aircraft Industries, Inc. · 114 F. Supp. 843 - E. M. Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. International · Metropolitan Mutual Fire Insurance v. Carmen Holding Co.
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.
““Unless otherwise agreed, a person who has discharged more than his proportionate share of a duty owed by himself and another as to which, between the two, neither had a prior duty of performance, is entitled to contribution from the other, except where the payor is barred by the wrongful nature of his conduct.” (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tindall v. Holder
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.