Westerhoff v. Slind’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 62 · 1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2016
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Grothe Ex Rel. Grothe v. Shaffer · American Motorists Insurance Co. v. Vigen · Samuelson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · Hoverson v. Hoverson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Minnesota law imposes two threshold requirements on the right to sue for contribution: the parties must share a common liability or burden, and the plaintiff must have discharged more than his fair share of the common liability or burden.”
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.