Ramsey v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 890 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2005
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Smith Petroleum Service, Inc. v. Monsanto Chemical Co. · Granquist v. Crystal Springs Lumber Co. · Carr v. CRABTREE · 230 So. 2d 549 - Home Insurance Co. of NY v. Atlas Tank Mfg. 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . absent any contractual right Georgia-Pacific would have no right of contribution of indemnification against Walker Welding as a joint tort-feasor under Mississippi law. If both actively contributed to the accident, neither has a common law right of contribution against the other. Granquist v. Crystal Springs Lumber Co., 190 Miss. 572 , 1 So.2d 216, 218 (1941)... .. Although Mississippi law permits recovery by a passively negligent wrongdoer against one whose active negligence caused the accident under the theory of implied indemnity, Home Insurance Co. of New York v. Atlas Tank Manufacturing Co., 230 So.2d 549, 551 (Miss.1970), the “passive-active” theory of indemnification is made unavailable to Georgia-Pacific as a passive wrongdoer by the exclusive remedy provisions of the Mississippi Workmen’s Compensation Act.... as interpreted by the Court in Smith Petroleum Service, Inc. v. Monsanto Chemical Co., 420 F.2d 1103, 1111-1112 (5th Cir. 1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We reach the conclusion that summary judgment should not have been granted on this point because (1) the contract seems to contemplate that Walker Welding would be solely responsible for the work so the parties would be protecting Georgia-Pacific against Walker Welding’s activity in this regard; (2) Mississippi law does not foreclose such an agreement; (3) were it not for the insulating factor of workmen’s compensation, Mississippi law itself would provide for a passive-active wrongdoers shifting of liability. Home Insurance Co. of New York v. Atlas Manufacturing Co., supra. By this decision we do not predict how this litigation will come out. A full hearing may disclose that the agreement cannot be interpreted as we have suggested here. But the apparent lack of Mississippi controlling law and the failure to have a fully developed case before the Court make summary judgment an inappropriate way of handling the issues in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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