153 Ga. App. 854 - Kellett v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) The holder discharges any party to the instrument to the extent that without such party’s consent the holder (a) Without express reservation of rights releases or agrees not to sue any person against whom the party has to the knowledge of the holder a right of recourse or agrees to suspend the right to enforce against such person the instrument or collateral or otherwise discharges such person, except that failure or delay in effecting any required presentment, protest or notice of dishonor with respect to any such person does not discharge any party as to whom presentment, protest or notice of dishonor is effective or unnecessary!;.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Varga v. Woods

2. “does not expressly state that if the creditor grants an extension [of the time for payment], the surety is discharged, but the draftsmen intended that result. The surety, then, can claim discharge under 3-606 when, without his consent and without an “express reservation of rights,” the creditor and debtor enter into an agreement to extend time for payment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Varga v. Woods