Watson Bros. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably Continental Casualty Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross v. Associated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc., Thomas Jordan, Inc., Defendant-Appellee-Cross Texaco, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. Associated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc., Thomas Jordan, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross United Tugs, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross v. Continental Casualty Company, Defendants-Appellees-Cross (1971), Brown & Root, Inc. v. Gifford-Hill & Co. (1963)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Levy v. Du Bois · Graves v. Scott · Baker v. Pagaud · I. Bloom & Co. v. L. H. Stern & Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no objection to one's contracting to pay for goods to be delivered, whether to the obligor, or to a third person, and the obligation resulting from such a contract may be none the less a debt of the obligor because the third person, to whom the goods are delivered, also becomes bound for the price. If the condition of the contract is that the obligor is to pay for the goods only in the event that the person to whom they are to be delivered does not, then the latter is to be regarded as the principal debtor, and the contract is a collateral one, of suretyship, in which the obligor would be regarded as binding himself for the debt of another, and which could not be proved by parol evidence. Graves v. Scott Baer, 23 La.Ann. [690], 692; Levy Dieter v. Dubois, Lowe Foley, 24 La.Ann. 398 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hornsby v. Rives““Two persons may make themselves liable, primarily (and not, necessarily, in the relation' of principal and surety) for the same debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pugh v. Eylers
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.