Spangler v. McQuitty’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
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.
“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“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“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.