Durell v. Wendell’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2019
6 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 Sprague v. Baker · Rowley v. Stoddard · Gibson v. Gibson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there are two or more obligors, or promissors, a covenant not to sue one is never construed as a release, as that would discharge the other signers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o avoid circuity of action such a covenant may be pleaded as a release, but it can be so pleaded only betwixt the actual parties to the contract ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would directly conflict with the manifest intention of the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.