National Surety Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006 · most notably Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance (1962), Insurance Company of the West v. United States (2001)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Applies 41 U.S.C. § 15
Relies on United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Martin v. National Surety Co. · American Surety Co of New York v. Westinghouse Electric Mfg 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the equity of the surety company is superior to the rights of the bank acquired under an assignment, whether the surety's rights are derived from the discharge of its liability on a performance bond or on a payment bond.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as collateral, to secure the obligations [of the contractor]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.