Fritz v. Madow’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Peck v. Jacquemin (1985), Seals v. Hickey (1982)
2 district · 31 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 Anonymous v. Norton · Goldberg v. Zoning Commission · Bridgeport Pipe Engineering Co. v. DeMatteo Construction Co. · Dwy v. Connecticut Co. · Rood v. Russo
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a payment by one tortfeasor for a covenant not to sue that is in excess of the verdict subsequently returned against a joint tortfeasor necessarily entitles the joint tortfeasor to a reduction or erasure of the verdict as to damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seals v. Hickey“It is well settled that the plain and unambiguous terms of a statute govern its construction rather than speculation as to some policy or equities claimed to be embodied therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“similar to the discretion exercised by the court when either an additur or a remittitur is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seals v. Hickey
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.