Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. International Paper Company’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 492 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 84 Ill. App. 3d 395 - Bean v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. (1980), Burlington Northern, Inc. v. Hughes Bros. (1982)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Cardillo v. United States · United States v. Ohio Power Co. · Prado Oil & Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Moog Industries, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Baetich v. Hobby
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the indemnitee need not prove its legal liability to the injured party when its indemnitor denies liability under a contract and refuses to assume defense of the claim or to otherwise hold the indemnitee harmless for any loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only remaining issue ... was whether (industry) was liable for the full amount of the settlement or only half under the final clause ... in the event of 'joint or concurrent negligence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Dobry Flour Mills, Inc., 211 F.2d at 788 (”
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.