Rabon v. Automatic Fasteners, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 1231 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Dixon v. International Harvester Co. (1985), United States v. Myers (1992)
20 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 653 (§ 4 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
Relies on West v. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Inc. · Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. · 374 So. 2d 490 - Houdaille Industries, Inc. v. Edwards · Colonial Refrigerated Transportation, Inc. v. Mitchell · Marshall v. Isthmian Lines, Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] third party indemnity action will survive a motion to dismiss only if the third party complaint alleges: (1) that there existed a special duty running from the indemnitor to the indemnitee; (2) that the indemnitor breached that duty; (3) that the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from the breach; and (4) that the indemnitee can be held liable for the injuries resulting to the plaintiff from the indemnitor’s acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or in any manner affect any workmen's compensation law or to enlarge or diminish or affect in any other manner the common law or statutory rights, duties, or liabilities of employers and employees under any law with respect to injuries, diseases or death of employees arising out of, or in the course of, employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanchez v. Galey“Florida law regards one who is strictly liable as being at fault, that is, not merely vicariously liable (citations omitted), for that reason one who is strictly liable cannot recover indemnity under Houdaille, (citations omitted) Rabón, supra, at 1235.”
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.