Greer v. Stanislau’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “where a person is injured by the concurrent negligence of two tortfeasors who are joined in one action, the fact that each of them attempts to show that the other was solely responsible for the accident or that the other alone was negligent does not make the issue of negligence res judicata in subsequent proceedings between them * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kimmel v. Lines

2. “The rendition of a judgment in an action does not conclude parties to the action who are not adversaries under the pleadings, as to their rights inter se upon matters which they did not litigate, or have an opportunity to litigate, between themselves.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kimmel v. Lines

3. “We think the Pennsylvania Courts would follow this section of the Restatement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kimmel v. Lines