Faser v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 856 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Reese v. Herbert (2008), Fuller v. Secretary of Defense of the United States (1994)
8 federal appellate · 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 Weingarden v. United States · Oswalt v. Scripto, Inc. · Addington v. Farmer's Elevator Mutual Insurance · Marshall v. Gibson's Products, Inc. of Plano · United States v. Joe Grasso & Son, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]mpleader is available only when the third party defendant's liability is secondary to, or a derivative of, the original defendants's liability on the original plaintiff's claim. Faser v. Sears, Roebuck Co. , 674 F.2d 856 , 860 (11th Cir. 1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person not a party to the action who is or may be liable to the third-party plaintiff for all or part of the plaintiff's claim against the third-party plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We generally defer to an interpretation of state law by a federal district judge sitting in that state, provided his interpretation appears to be reasonable and consistent with the state's law.”
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.