Gianquitti v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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 Ferryman v. City of Groton · Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. · Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. · Skuzinski v. Bouchard Fuels, Inc. · Truk-Away of Rhode Island, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the third party, in a suit by the employee, seeks recovery over against a contributorily negligent employer, contribution [or indemnification] is ordinarily denied on the ground that the employer cannot be said to be jointly liable in tort to the employee because of the operation of the exclusive-remedy clause [of the Workers' Compensation Act]. But if the employer can be said to have breached an independent duty' toward the third party, or if there is a basis for finding an implied promise of indemnity, recovery in the form of indemnity may be I allowed. . . .' 2A A. Larson, [Workmen's Compensation Law § 76].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Commencing on the return day of the writ, summons and complaint in civil actions, pleadings . . . shall first advance within thirty days from the return day, and any subsequent pleadings . . . shall advance at least one step within each successive period of fifteen days from the preceding pleading. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The absence or presence of exclusive control is ordinarily a question of fact.”
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.