Pennington v. Bevering’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1995
2 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be more specific, the instrument under consideration recites the payment by Ross Corlett ‘as full, final, and complete payment and satisfaction of said judgment,’ and does ‘hereby release and -discharge the said Ross Corlett from any and all other and further liability of every kind and nature to us by reason of said judgment, * * * and do hereby further discharge and release any and all judgment liens that may be filed and existing in any county in the state of Texas by reason of said judgment.’ If this language stood alone, there would, of course, be an end to the inquiry, but in each instance there is subjoined immediately the words, ‘in so far as the said Ross Corlett is concerned.' The evident purpose of the parties then was to limit the release to Ross Corlett. Otherwise, the language last above quoted would be meaningless. (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burge v. Fleming
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.