Leiken v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Rong Yao Zhou v. Jennifer Mall Restaurant, Inc. (1987), Beckman v. Farmer (1990)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 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 Hobbs v. McLean · Alarid v. Vanier · Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson · Ross v. Hartman · McKenna v. Austin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If two or more tortfeasors produce a single injury, the plaintiff may sue each one for the full amount of the damage and hold the defendants severally liable; but the plaintiff can obtain only a single recovery, and each defendant will be entitled to a credit for any sum that the plaintiff has collected from the other defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient competent evidence to justify a finding that the defendant did all a reasonable person who wished to comply with the law would do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“everything a reasonably prudent person would have done to comply with all applicable regulations....”
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.