Armstreet v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1984
7 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 Gulbenkian v. Penn · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co. · Womack v. Allstate Insurance Company · Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Smith · Riley v. Industrial Finance Service Co.
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.
““It is the general rule followed by numerous Texas decisions that a valid release of one- or more joint tort-feasors by an injured party will release all other tort-feasors contributing to the wrong, unless the language of the release indicates an intention of the parties that the nonsettling parties are not discharged. Riley v. Industrial Finance Service Company, 157 Tex. 306 , 302 S.W.2d 652 (1957); City of Coleman v. Kenley, 168 S.W.2d 926 , (Tex.Civ.App., 1943, ref., w.o.m.). The matter of release, of course, is a matter of intention and generally, in the absence of fraud, accident, or mutual mistake, parol evidence is inadmissible to contradict the terms of a written instrument that on its face is complete and unambiguous. Rapid Transit Ry. Co. v. Smith, 98 Tex. 553 , 86 S.W. 322 , (1905). In some instances, however, where the release is silent on a controverted point, parol evidence ma) be offered to supply its imperfections or supply those things about which it makes no declaration. Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co. v. Larson, 169 S.W.2d 260 , (Tex.Civ.App., 1943, ref., w.o.m.) and Ditto v. Piper, 244 S.W.2d 547 , (Tex.Civ.App., 1951, ref., n.r.e.).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . when the affidavits or other summary judgment ‘evidence’ disclose facts which render the position of the moving party untenable, summary judgment should be denied regardless of defects which may exist in the pleadings of the opposite party.””
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.