Hall v. Equitable Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “in indemnity contracts the engagement is to make good and save another from loss upon some obligation which he has incurred, or is about to incur, to a third person, and is not as in guaranty and suretyship a promise to one to whom another is answerable.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Madison County Farmers Ass'n v. American Employers' Ins. · Fausett Builders, Inc. v. Globe Indemnity Co.

2. ““Manifestly, the statute is applicable only in those cases where there is a principal debtor, or obligor, and a surety. In such cases, where the surety has notified the creditor or obligee as prescribed by the statute, then such creditor or obligee cannot maintain an action against the surety until he has-brought suit and pursued the same with diligence to judgment and execution against the principal debtor or obligor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Madison County Farmers Ass'n v. American Employers' Ins.

3. “Where the contract takes the form of ordinary suretyship, `the agreement of the surety is that he will do the thing which the principal has undertaken'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fausett Builders, Inc. v. Globe Indemnity Co.