Restifo v. McDonald

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a release indicating that the \parties had in mind a general settlement of accounts ... will be given effect according to its terms\
• recognizing that a release indicating that the “parties had in mind a general settlement of accounts ... will be given effect according to its terms”
• effect of release in third-party action
• effect of release in third-party action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 260×
• Rakowski v. Lucente
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-11-30· cited 203×
• Craig Zuber v. Boscovs
  Third Circuit· 2017-09-11· cited 173×
• McFadden v. American Oil Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-09-11· cited 95×
• Wm. A. Smith Contracting Co., Inc. v. The Travelers Indemnity Company, and the Delaware River Port Authority
  Tenth Circuit· 1972-10-10· cited 85×
• Reitmeyer v. Sprecher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-07-01· cited 73×
• Hack v. Hack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-14· cited 67×
• Pedigo v. Rowley
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1980-05-06· cited 63×
• Estate of Grossman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-01· cited 49×
• Murray v. University of Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-21· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Geschwendt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 46×
• Vaughn v. Didizian
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-16· cited 39×
• Bowman v. Sunoco, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-25· cited 38×
• In the Matter of F. H. McGraw & Company, Bankrupt. Appeal of Fellows Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1973-02-09· cited 24×
• Sottile v. Gaines Construction Company
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-07-03· cited 24×
• Quest v. Joseph
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-01-07· cited 23×
• DUBLIN BY DUBLIN v. Shuster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-30· cited 23×
• Richland Mall Corp. v. Kasco Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-21· cited 23×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1975-08-08· cited 22×
• Gerald Thompson, and Cynthia Thompson, Husband and Wife v. Daphne Wheeler, and John D. Risse, Additional Appeal of Daphne Wheeler
  Third Circuit· 1990-03-21· cited 22×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brown v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 2,465×
• Smith v. Allwright
  Supreme Court· 1944-06-12· cited 875×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 426×
• Commonwealth v. Woodhouse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-09-26· cited 131×
• Davis v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 97×
• PULLER (Et Al.) v. Puller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-03· cited 88×
• Wenger v. Ziegler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-01-04· cited 83×
• General Mills, Inc. v. Snavely
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-04-14· cited 61×
• Cady v. Mitchell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-17· cited 53×
• Linda Coal & Supply Co. v. Tasa Coal Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-11-10· cited 51×
• Flaccus v. Wood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1918-01-07· cited 38×
• Killian v. Catanese
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-01-04· cited 34×
• Michael v. Hahnemann Medical College & Hospital of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-06-27· cited 33×
• Kent v. Fair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-04-21· cited 28×
• Daly v. BUTERBAUGH (Et Al.)
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-07· cited 26×
• McDowell v. Oyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1853-07-25· cited 24×
• Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance v. Klein
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-04-11· cited 23×
• Moyer v. Independent Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-10-26· cited 13×
• Polley v. Atlantic Refining Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-23· cited 10×
• Shepley v. Lytle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1837-09-15· cited 10×