Veach v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 293 · 1889
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1984 · most notably Overby v. Gordon (1900), Thomas Christianson v. County of King (1915)
16 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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Dair v. United States · Griffith v. Frazier · Elias Kane v. Gabriel Paul · Caujolle v. Ferrié
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhen the second or subsequent bond is given for a new and different undertaking, it operates, ipso facto,, as a dis charge of the prior parties ... [T]he sureties on the first bond are discharged from all further liability on account of their principal, [emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.