Carter v. Epsco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1062 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2020
11 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Loescher v. Parr · Appalachian Corp. v. Brooklyn Cooperage Co. · 388 So. 2d 737 - Jones v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE, ETC. · Hunt v. City Stores, 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Persons whose concurring fault has caused injury, death or loss to another are also answerable, in solido * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When two or more debtors are liable in solido, whether the obligation arises from a contract, a quasi-contract, an offense, or a quasi-offense, it should be divided between them. As between the solidary debtors, each is liable only for his virile portion of the obligation. 10”
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.