Perlmutter v. Blessing’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2002
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 263 Pa. Super. 174 - Lasprogata v. Qualls · 141 N.J. Super. 365 - Neveroski v. Blair · Wolfe v. Ford Motor Co. · Bishop v. KLEIN FULLER · Mastro v. Brodie
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) When a release or a covenant not to sue or not enforce judgment is given in good faith to one of two or more persons liable in tort for the same injury or the same wrongful death: (a) It does not discharge any of the other tortfeasors from liability for the injury or wrongful death unless its terms so provide; but it reduces the claim against the others to the extent of any amount stipulated by the release or the covenant, or the amount of the consideration paid for it, whichever is greater; (b) It discharges the tortfeasor to whom it is given from all liability for contribution to any other tortfeasor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he application of [section (1)(a) ] ... is clear: either the settlement amount or the amount provided for in the settlement document, whichever is greater, must be deducted from the total judgment against the remaining tortfeasors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This section abrogates the common law rule that the release of one joint tort-feasor releases all joint tortfeasors. It allows an injured plaintiff to settle with one potential tortfeasor without releasing the remaining potential joint tort-feasors from liability. The amount of any settlement, however, must be subtracted from any judgment ultimately obtained against the non-settling tort-feasors. The settlement discharges the settling tortfeasor’s potential liability for contribution.”
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.