Ferguson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2016
4 district · 17 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 Fisher v. Diehl · Yellow Cab Co. of D. C., Inc. v. Dreslin · American Automobile Insurance v. Molling · Plotkin v. Plotkin · Lutz v. Boltz
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since a wife may not sue her husband at law in this State, the plaintiff in this ease has no possible remedy against her husband for damages arising from his negligence [Authority omitted]. Hence, to permit a third-party proceeding for contribution against the husband, as a joint tortfeasor, would be to render him liable indirectly upon a claim for which he may not be held liable directly. * * * * * * “Since there is no possible liability or right of action as between the third-party defendant and the plaintiff, his wife, it is held that the third-party plaintiff could have no right of contribution from the third-party defendant.” 10”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is clear from the very language of the statute itself that it has no application unless there is a ‘common liability’ to the injured person. This liability may be joint or several, but there is no right to contribution unless the injured person has a possible remedy against two or more persons. -X- * * * -X- -X- “In short, it is joint or several liability, rather than joint or concurring negligence, which determines the right of contribution.””
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.