Neves v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Springer v. City & County of Denver (2000), Sims v. Honda Motor Co. (1993)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Earley v. DiCenso · Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. · Radiology Professional Corp. v. Trinidad Area Health Ass'n · Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If literal effect were given to every use of a general release form and “all other persons, firms, and corporations,” as appears here, were to be discharged, an important purpose of the [UCATA] would be thwarted by the unintended release of persons who were strangers to the release contract. The common law rule released joint tortfeasors by operation of law. By the general release there would be, on the ground of contract, an unwitting discharge of joint tortfeasors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The [Uniform Contribution Among Tort-feasors Act] does not discharge joint tortfeasors “unless [the release] terms so provide,” while the [Uniform Joint Obli gation Act] does not release joint tortfea-sors “unless [the release] terms expressly so provide.”_ Had the General Assembly intended to require that express designation was a prerequisite to releasing a joint tortfeasor, it could have adopted a version of the UJOA rather than the UCATA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Release or Covenant Not to Sue. (1) When a release ... is given in good faith to one of two or more persons liable in tort for the same injury ...: (a) It does not discharge any of the other tortfeasors from liability for their several pro rata shares of liability for the injury, death, damage, or loss unless its terms so provide_”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cruz v. Benine
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.