Wright v. Orlowski’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Shiflet v. Eller (1984), Wood v. Standard Products Co. (1982)
15 federal appellate · 24 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 Shortt v. Hudson Supply & Equipment Co. · McLaughlin v. Siegel · Lackey v. Brooks, Adm'r · Owen v. Wade · Knight v. Oliver
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a release which actuates the rule. The making of an accord and the acceptance of satisfaction will effect a release. When a tortfeasee accepts satisfaction from one tortfeasor for the part he played in the joint tort, that tortfeasor is released and his release operates to release all other tortfeasors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accord having been made, acceptance by plaintiff! ] of the satisfaction tendered in consideration of [his] covenant not to sue and [his] commitment to nonsuit constituted releases of [the insured defendants]. “The satisfaction of the claim by the wrongdoer, and not the form of the instrument executed by the plaintiff, extinguished the claim of the latter.” ... We hold that when plaintiff!] accepted the payments fixed in the tripartite contracts, satisfaction for the tortious conduct of [insured defendants] was accepted, plaintiff[’s] cause of action was extinguished, and the other tort feasors were released.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not the relationship of the several wrongdoers among themselves, which is the foundation for the rule that a release of one wrongdoer releases all others from liability for the same wrong, it is the fact that the injured party is entitled to but one satisfaction for the same cause of action.”
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.