548 F. Supp. 660 - Rambone v. Critzer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Fallen v. United States · Hartford Electric Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Wilson · Brown v. Cranston · Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Jewel Tea 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, there is a valid distinction between the accrual of the equitable, inchoate right to contribution that arises at the time of jointly negligent acts and the maturation of the right to recover contribution that arises only after payment of an unequally large share of the common obligation.”
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.