Royal Indemnity Co. v. Woodbury Granite Co.’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.2d 689 · 1938
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably In re Saco Local Development Corp. (1983), The United States of America for the Use and Benefit of Woodington Electric Company, Inc. v. United Pacific Insurance Company, the United States of America for the Use and Benefit of Woodington Electric Company, Inc. v. Globe Electric Company, Inc., T/a M. L. Marshall Electrical Contractors (1976)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Illinois Surety Company v. John Davis Company E H B · United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. United States · United States ex rel. Hill v. American Surety Co. · Guaranty Co. v. Pressed Brick Co.
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.
“it had never previously been questioned in any federal court but that the surety must respond 'in accordance with the terms of the contract.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the surety is liable in those cases in which the principal would be liable.”
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.