Penza v. Neckles’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1997
10 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Allen · 321 So. 2d 73 - Sun First National Bank of Melbourne v. Batchelor · Continental Can Co. v. Lee Co. · 340 So. 2d 1210 - Penza v. Neckles
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does a written release executed prior to June 23, 1980, of one joint and several obligor release all other joint and several obligors on the same obligation when the release expressly states that it is not the intention of the obligee to release any other joint and several obligor and when the release expressly reserves the right in the obligee to sue any and all other joint and several obligors?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It does not extend in any way to releases involving joint and several obligors.”
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.