Barab v. Menford’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2015
1 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 Schwab v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad · Stewart E. Millard, Administrator of the Estate of Stephen Dudash, Deceased v. The Municipal Sewer Authority of the Township of Lower Makefield and Gannett, Fleming, Cordrry & Carpenter, Inc. v. George Tripp, Inc · Tiesler v. Martin Paint 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is no longer possible under Rule 14, as it was prior to the 1948 amendment to the rule, to implead a third party claimed to be solely liable to the plaintiff.... A proposed third-party plaintiff must allege facts sufficient to establish the derivative or secondary liability of the proposed third-party defendant.... Thus, under Rule 14(a); a third-party complaint is appropriate only in cases where the proposed third-party defendant would be secondarily liable to the original defendant in the event the latter is held to be liable to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“who is or may be liable to the third-party plaintiff [i.e., the original defendant--Sullivan] for all or part of the plaintiff's claim against the third-party plaintiff.”
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.