Ray v. Brenner’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1982
1 district · 7 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true rule is thus laid down by Thiebold in his work on Principal and Surety, p. 114: ‘The obligation of the surety, also, in general becomes extinct by the extinction of the obligation of the principal debtor. An exception to this rule takes place whenever the extinction of the obligation of the principal arises from causes, such as bankruptcy and certificate, which originate with the law, and not with the voluntary acts of the creditor.’ ” (p. 107.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Failor v. Wehe
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.