Guthrie v. Imbrie’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1957
8 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 Metcalf v. Williams · Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria v. The Bank of Columbia · Mortley v. Flanagan · Tucker Manufacturing Co. v. Fairbanks · Scanlan v. Keith
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.
“"It is well settled that whether a principal, or his agent, is the party liable upon a promissory note or bill of exchange, must be ascertained from the instrument itself. All evidence dehors the instrument is to be excluded. Barlow v. Congregational Soc., 8 Allen [Mass.] 460; Brown v. Parker, 7 Allen [Mass.] 337; Slawson v. Loring, 5 Allen [Mass.] 340, [81 Ann.Dec. 750]; Rendell v. Harriman, 75 Me. 497 `If it is left ambiguous on the face of the instrument whether they have so signed it, the construction most against the person signing should prevail.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“etc., and signed it with his own name with”
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.