Williams v. Colquett’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 119 Cal. App. 4th 1146 - Annette F. v. Sharon S. (2004), Campbell v. Williams (1994)
51 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 Steenhuis v. Holland · Wright v. McCord · Huey v. Dykes · Hanover Fire Ins. Co. v. Street · Woodward v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] person injured by joint tort-feasors may accept partial satisfaction and release one or more pro tanto and proceed against the others. However, the tort-feasors not so released may plead the release as a bar to that amount paid by the released tortfeasor or may place it in evidence showing payment for the one injury up to the amount shown in the release. [Citations omitted].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is ... [well] settled [in Alabama] that while a party is entitled to full compensation for his injuries there can be only one satisfaction therefor. Williams v. Colquett, 272 Ala. 577 , 133 So.2d 364, 368 (1961). If a plaintiff recovers judgment against one of the joint tort-feasors and obtains satisfaction, this operates as a discharge of the others ... Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... Any amount received by a party as compensation for his injuries, whether under a covenant not to sue, a conditional release or any other kind of arrangements, should be applied as a pro tanto reduction upon damages recoverable from another joint tort-feasor... ." Williams v. Colquett, 1961, 272 Ala. 577 , 133 So.2d 364, 368 . (Emphasis ours.)”
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.