Swift & Co. v. Colvert’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1969
12 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 Continental Gin Co. v. Arnold · Gunn v. Fryberger · Gentry v. Fife · Sherman v. Pacific Coast Pipe Co. · Palmer v. Noe
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘A guarantor of payment or performance is liable to the guarantee immediately upon the default of the principal, and without demand or notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. McNeal““A guaraanty is to be deemed unconditional, unless its terms import some condition precedent to the liability of the guarantor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. McNeal
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.