Furlong v. Leybourne’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2015
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Fed. Land Bk. of Columbia v. Godwin · Hewitt Hewitt v. Punta Gorda State Bank · Clifford v. West Hartford Creamery Co. · Fowler v. Lee · Siwooganock Guaranty Savings Bank v. Cushman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“paying any part of the debt of another provided the entire debt is paid,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot recover from the estate since it has long been closed for filing of creditor claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In still further litigation between the parties the issue was whether the widow, the respondent here, in her individual capacity as co-maker of said note with her deceased husband should bear the primary responsibility for payment of the note. The District Court of Appeal held that as to the widow and the daughters, if any of them paid off the mortgage she or they would be subrogated to the mortgagee's right to foreclose the mortgage. The court also held as to the widow, who was an accommodation maker on the note, that her right of subrogation would include”
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.