Dunn v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 511 · 1981
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Dixon v. International Harvester Co. (1985), Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. v. Aspen Skiing Co. (1984)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Harvey v. Travelers Insurance Company · Wall v. AMERICAN EMPLOYERS. INS. CO. · Dunn v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Augustin v. Mughal
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Louisiana law if a plaintiff releases a joint tortfeasor, he deprives the remaining joint tortfeasor of his right to contribution against the one who has been released. Harvey v. Travelers Insurance Co., 163 So.2d 915, 920-22 (La. App.1964). See Wall v. American Employers Insurance Co., 386 So.2d 79, 82 (La.1980). Because the plaintiff has thus prejudiced the tortfeasor still liable to him, he suffers reduction of the damages recoverable from the remaining tortfeasor by the virile share that would have been due from the released tortfeasor. Harvey v. Travelers Insurance Co., 162 So.2d at 921-22; Brummerloh v. Firemen’s Insurance Co., 377 So.2d 1301, 1313 (La.App.1979). See Wall v. American Employers Insurance Co., 386 So.2d at 82 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ross claims are permissive rather than compulsory[,] and a party to an action has the option to pursue [them] in an independent action.”
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.