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← 449 Md. 33 - Spangler v. McQuitty

Spangler v. McQuitty’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
April 2021
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Thompson v. Wing · COLOMIRIS v. Woods · Stewart v. United Electric Light & Power Co. · Bushey v. Northern Assurance Co. of America · Swigert v. Welk

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

  1. “consider the consequences resulting from one meaning rather than another, and adopt that construction which avoids an illogical or unreasonable result, or one which is inconsistent with common sense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “reduces the claim against the other tort-feasors in the amount of the consideration paid for the release or in any amount or proportion by which the release provides that the total claim shall be reduced, if greater than the consideration paid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Moreover, in our view, whether a release by the decedent bars a wrongful death claim by her beneficiaries depends in part on the sweep of the language of the particular release.”
    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.