Spinelli v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 417 Pa. Super. 440 - Marinari v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1992), Turner v. Crawford Square Apartments III, L.P. (2006)
6 federal appellate · 45 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 Fisher v. Hill · Sustrik v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Fields v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. · London v. Philadelphia · Saber v. Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen personal injuries to a person and damages to his property arise from the same cause and the same tortious act, the person who has sustained such personal injuries and property damage must seek recovery for both in a single action and, if separate actions are instituted for each category of damage and a judgment is rendered in one of such actions, the entry of such judgment has the effect of res judicata and bars recovery in the other action. Such is the view of a substantial majority of jurisdictions in the United States, and to this view Pennsylvania has long adhered. (Citations omitted).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fields ruling is salutary: (a) it relieves defendants of subjection to more than one suit by the same person for a single tort; (b) it avoids a multiplicity of suits; (c) it provides a simple and direct method of determining all the claims of an individual arising from the same tortious act.”
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.