Van Kirk v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1937
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Evans v. Keeland
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the plaintiff could be regarded as the guarantor of or surety for the mortgage debt, he can make no defense to its payment which the principal waives or repudiates, or by his conduct precludes himself from making, for the reason, as was said by Judge Ormond in Evans v. Keeland, 9 Ala. 42 : ‘If the principal could abide by the contract, and the surety repudiate it, the strange result would be produced that the principal would retain the fruits of the contract, whilst- the surety would avoid the performance of his obligation, on the ground of its invalidity, in direct opposition to the acts of the principal, admitting that the contract was valid.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mapes v. Foster
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.