Child v. Newsom’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gupta v. New Britain General Hospital (1996), Child v. Gonda (1998)
1 district · 34 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 Higgins v. Salt Lake County · State v. Larsen · 101 Ill. 2d 196 - Alsup v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Ferree v. State · Beck v. Cianchetti
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a release must contain language either naming the defendant or identifying the defendant with some degree of specificity in order to discharge that defendant from liability”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A release given by a person seeking recovery to one or more defendants does not discharge any other defendant unless the release so provides.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“would necessarily run contrary to the statute’s purpose by allowing general release language which does not name or specifically identify a particular tort-feasor to discharge that tort-feasor. Such an approach would effectively perpetuate the common law by permitting boilerplate language in a release discharging one tort-feasor to discharge all other tort-feasors in direct opposition to the very statute that was enacted to prevent this from occurring.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevensen v. Goodson
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.