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← 686 A2D 237 - Noonan v. Williams

Noonan v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
4
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “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 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.