183 W. Va. 43 - Cline v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
16 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 163 W. Va. 332 - Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co. · 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. · 182 W. Va. 597 - Board of Education v. Zando, Martin & Milstead, Inc. · 62 Cal. App. 3d 231 - Stambaugh v. Superior Court · 156 W. Va. 707 - Woodall v. Laurita
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A settlement entered into between a nonparty and a claimant prior to the instigation of a lawsuit should discharge the nonparty from further obligation to either the claimant or the nonparty’s joint tort-feasor, as long as the settlement was entered into in good faith and the amount of the settlement is disclosed to the trial court for verdict reduction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except in rare cases of collusion or bad faith, ... a joint tortfeasor should be permitted to negotiate a settlement of an adverse claim according to his own best interests, whether for his financial advantage, or for the purchase of peace and quiet, or otherwise. His good faith will not be determined by the proportion his settlement bears to the damages of the claimant. For the damages are often speculative, and the probability of legal liability therefor is often uncertain or remote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party in a civil action who has made a good faith settlement with the plaintiff prior to a judicial determination of liability is relieved from any liability for contribution. Defendants in a civil action against whom a verdict is rendered are entitled to have the verdict reduced by the amount of any good faith settlements previously made with the plaintiff by other jointly liable parties_ (emphasis added).”
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.