Jones v. . Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Mallory v. . Gillett · Chapin v. Merrill
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.
“The indemnitor of the plaintiff, on restoring to him this sum in performance of the contract of indemnity, would he entitled to be substituted to the claim of the plaintiff against Kingsbury [the principal]. This stands upon the most obvious principles of natural justice. * * * There was no privity of contract between the indemnitor and Kingsbury, but there was between the plaintiff [the indemnitee-guarantor] and Kingsbury. On paying the plaintiff what he had been compelled to pay for Kingsbury, pursuant to the contract of indemnity, the indemnitor would stand as the equitable assignee of the plaintiff of the obligation of Kingsbury to him. * * *”
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.