Furst v. McNitt’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2006
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Burton v. Dewey · Citizens Bank v. Bowdon · John S. Brittain Dry Goods Co. v. Yearout · Fall v. Youmans · Emery v. Farmers State Bank
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a principal obligor is admittedly insolvent, the indemnified party may proceed at once against the guarantors without first pursuing a futile action against the principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ancient legal maxim that the law requires no one to do vain or useless things....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.