Walcutt v. Clevite Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Aniero Concrete Co. (2005), Cinema North Corporation v. Plaza at Latham Associates (1989)
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Gillespie v. . Torrance · Ettlinger v. . National Surety Co. · Elliott v. . Brady · Lasher v. . Williamson · Forsythe v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the guarantor is not liable unless the principal is bound.”
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.