Flagg v. McCann Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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.
Relationships
Relies on McKenna v. Austin · 263 Pa. Super. 174 - Lasprogata v. Qualls · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hilligoss · Cruse v. Aden · Hoesel v. Cain Kahler v. Cain
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'those who act together in com-miting wrong, or whose acts if independent of each other, unite in causing [a] single injury.' [Citation omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When more than one unite in the commission of a wrong, each is responsible for the acts of all, and for the whole damage; also, where separate and independent acts of negligence by different persons concur in perpetrating a single injury, each is fuUy responsible for the trespass. Courts will not undertake to apportion the damage in such cases among the joint wrongdoers. The injured party has at his election his remedy against all, or any number.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Rhinehart“two or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort for the same injury to person or property.”
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.