King v. Batterson’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1989
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Whitney v. Groot · Fenly v. Stewart
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily a guaranty is not negotiable. It may, indeed, be made so, if such appears to be the intention of the guarantor. It may not be addressed to any particular person. It may be an offer addressed to all the world, as in case of a reward offered. But, if addressed to a particular person, as in this case, we think it cannot be transferred so as to enable another to sue upon it in his own name. There may be good reasons why the guarantor should be willing to deal with one person, and not with another; there may be equities or other dealings between the guarantor and guarantee which the former may desire to provide for.””
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.