Colby v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably McKenna v. Austin (1943), Kathios v. General Motors Corp. (1988)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Wadhams v. Flagler Gay · Cain v. Quannah Light & Ice Co. · Wheat v. Carter · Carpenter v. W. H. McElwain Co. · Masterson v. Berlin Street Railway
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Various forms used to discharge or protect Une claimed to be liable because of concurrent fault have been considered. If the document recites that it is a settlement in full for the damages, and contains no suggestion of any reservations, it bars the subsequent claim against another defendant for the same injuries. Carpenter v. Company, 78 N. H. 118. “If there is a reservation of rights against third parties, or if the document takes the form of a covenant not to sue, the result is otherwise. Masterson v. Railway, supra [83 N. H. 190].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judgment on the merits against one liable for a tort, followed by satisfaction, works a discharge of others similarly liable for the same injury.”
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.