Pullman Standard, Inc. v. Abex Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Nottingdale Homeowners' Ass'n v. Darby (1987), Ina Insurance Co. of North America v. Valley Forge Insurance (1986)
8 federal appellate · 26 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 76 Ill. 2d 154 - Kerns v. Engelke · 22 Cal. 3d 1 - Davis v. Air Technical Industries, Inc. · Farr v. Armstrong Rubber Company · Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. · Addy v. Bolton
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e recognize an exception to that rule and hold that the right of indemnity which arises by operation of law, based upon the relationship of the parties, see Cohen v. Noel, 165 Tenn. [1 Beel.] 600, 56 S.W.2d 744 (1933) includes the right to recover attorneys’ fees and other litigation costs which have been incurred by the indemnitee in litigation with a third party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“based upon the failure of the indemnitor to fulfill an obligation to take over the indemnitee’s defense or upon the existence of some benefit to the indemnitor arising from the defense conducted by the indemnitee. Instead, it is, like the right of the indemnitee to be indemnified for any judgment or settlement it pays, based upon the relationship between the parties and their respective degrees of fault.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““One who through the tort of another has been required to act in the protection of his interests by bringing or defending an action against a third person is entitled to recover reasonable compensation for loss of time, attorney fees and other expenditures thereby suffered or incurred in the earlier action.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.