51 Wash. 2d 371 - Nelson v. Sponberg’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably New England Fish Company Nefco Rubenstein Nefco v. Ball Bros Inc (1984), Tankrederiet Gefion A/S v. Hyman-Michaels Co. (1969)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 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 Dunn v. . Uvalde Asphalt Paving Co. · Luton Mining Co. v. Louisville & N. R. Co. · Ingalls v. Angell · Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. v. Washington Tire & Rubber Co. · City of Seattle v. John C. Regan & 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n indemnitee who seeks reimbursement from his indemnitor for a payment made by him in discharge of a claim indemnified against is not bound to submit to suit before paying the claim; but if he pays without such suit, as a condition of recovery from his indemnitor, he is under the necessity of proving that he was liable for the amount thus paid.”
3 later decisions 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.