Northup v. Eakes’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Landers v. East Texas Salt Water Disposal Co. (1952), City of Okmulgee v. Hemphill (1938)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 61 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Slater v. . Mersereau · City of Kansas City v. Slangstrom · Luengene v. Consumers Light, Heat & Power Co. · 29 App. D.C. 554 - Brennan Construction Co. v. Cumberland
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Where, although concert is lacking, the separate and independent acts or negligence of several combine to produce directly a single injury, each is responsible for the entire result, even though his act or neglect alone might not have caused it. It has been said that "to make tort-feasors liable jointly there must be some sort of community in the wrongdoing, and the injury must be in some way due to their joint work, but it is not necessary that they be acting together and in concert if their concurring negligence occasions the injury."' * * * * * * ... [I]t is clear that while the lessees holding separate leases acted independent of each other, yet their several acts in permitting the oil to flow into the stream combined to produce but a single injury. In these circumstances, each is responsible for the entire result, even though his act or neglect alone might not have caused it." 178 P. at 268 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * It is clear that while the lessees holding separate leases acted independent of each other, yet their several acts in permitting the oil to flow into the stream combined to produce but a single injury. In these circumstances each is responsible for the entire result, even though his act or neglect alone might not have caused it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Several of these cases are directly in point, and, as they satisfactorily state the reasoning upon which, the rule announced is based, we are constrained to follow them without further comment, although there seems to be some respectable authority to the contrary.””
1 later decision 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.