Randall v. Gerrick’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1941
9 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 City of Chicago v. Babcock · Abb v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Ellis v. Esson · Knapp v. . Roche · Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Co. v. Hall
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the authorities maintain the principle that a satisfaction of a wrong by one not in fact liable will operate as a release of the actual wrongdoer (Martin v. Cunningham, ante p. 517, 161 Pac. 355 ), the better doctrine also recognizes the right of a party wronged to release one not liable without releasing the wrongdoer, although it may be done for a consideration, if the consideration has not in fact been accepted as a satisfaction for the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rust v. Schlaitzer
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.