Convit v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McDermott, Inc. v. AmClyde · Alvarez v. New Haven Register, Inc. · Cartel Capital Corp. v. Fireco of New Jersey · McKenna v. Austin · President & Directors of Georgetown College v. Hughes
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]etween the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, a majority of courts adopted the common law rule that a valid release of an agent for tortious conduct releases the principal when the plaintiffs claim is based on vicarious liability. 11 The rationale articulated ... rested on different theories, but the driving force behind the common law rule appeared to be that in the absence of the rule a plaintiff could receive more than one satisfaction for her 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.