Fields v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1979
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Manry v. Waxelbaum Co. · Baldwin Fertilizer Co. v. Carmichael · Wright v. Shorter · Geiser Manufacturing Co. v. Jones & Toole
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the liability of Willis was that of a guarantor, the court did not err in dismissing the suit, because a guarantor must be sued in the county of his residence. Geiser Mfg. Co. v. Jones, 90 Ga. 307 [ 17 SE 81 ]. If he was liable as a surety, then he was properly joined in the suit with the principal in the county of the latter’s residence.””
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.