Penrod v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * a person injured by a joint tort has a single and indivisible cause of action. He may proceed against the wrongdoers either jointly or severally, and may recover a judgment or judgments against all, but he can have but one satisfaction of his single cause of action. * * * In 52 Am.Jur., Torts, § 131, it is said: ‘It is a rule announced generally in a number of cases that nothing but the satisfaction of a judgment, or something which the law deems equivalent thereto, can bar an action against other tort-feasors. It is an implication of this rule that the satisfaction of such a judgment does operate as a bar. This implication finds affirmative support in other cases which specifically support the rule that the satisfaction of a judgment against one tort-feasor releases all from liability.’ ” Penrod v. Devine, 301 Ky. 629 , 192 S.W.2d 817 (1946).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pierce v. Frito-Lay, Inc.