Noonan v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Earley v. DiCenso · Morrison v. Olson · Carmichael v. Beller · McKenna v. Austin
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of law [ ] a general release is unambiguous and therefore provides for the discharge of all potential joint tortfeasors, both named and unnamed.” Id. at 241 (footnote omitted). 23 . The intent rule permits use of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Convit v. Wilson“if the terms of the release are not clear on the face of the document itself.” Id. at 244 . 24 . Id. (citations omitted). 25 . Id. at 245 . 26 . In Hill, supra note 18 , we said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Convit v. Wilson
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.