Mulligan v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 2003
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Soares v. Vestal · Gillis v. Gillis · Sims v. Honda Motor Co. · Burritt Mutual Savings Bank v. Transamerica Insurance · Mulligan v. Hall
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.
“Even without an express reservation of rights, a general release discharges only those joint tortfeasors whom the contracting parties actually intended to be released.”
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.