Colton v. Swain’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 296 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Pipefitters Welfare Educational Fund v. Westchester Fire Insurance Company (1993), Apple v. Jewish Hospital & Medical Center (1987)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Maternally Yours, Inc. v. Your Maternity Shop, Inc. · 43 Ill. App. 2d 184 - Sims Ex Rel. Ruark v. Illinois National Casualty 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At any time after commencement of the action a defending party, as a third-party plaintiff, may cause a summons and com plaint to be served upon a person not a. party to the action who is or may be liable to him for all or part of the plaintiff’s claim against him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to avoid circuity of actions and to expedite the resolution of secondary actions arising out of or in consequence of the action originally instituted. The rule guarantees consistent results, saves the time and cost involved in the needless repetition of evidence at a subsequent trial, and prevents the defendant in the original action from being handicapped by the time which may elapse between a judgment against him and a judgment in his favor ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person or organization shall have any right under this policy to join the [insurer] as a party to any action against the insured to determine the insured's liability, nor shall the [insurer] be impleaded by the insured or his legal representative.”
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.