Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 227 · 1896
Citation profile
346 federal appellate · 110 district · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,155 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably United States v. Munsey Trust Co. (1947), Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance (1962)
346 federal appellate · 110 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 43 states
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 Ætna Life Insurance v. Middleport · Miller v. Stewart · Reese v. United States · Cross v. Allen
Cited together with Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance · United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Martin v. National Surety Co. · Erie Co v. Tompkins
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 1,155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a stipulation in a building contract for the retention, until the completion of the work, of a certain portion of the consideration, is as much for the indemnity of him who may be guarantor of the performance of the work as for him for whom the work is to be performed; that it raises an equity in the surety in the fund to be created; and that a disregard of such stipulation by the voluntary act of the creditor operates to release the sureties, is amply sustained by authority.””
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he must not act as a mere volunteer, but on compulsion, to save himself from loss by reason of a superior lien or claim on the part of the person to whom he pays the debt....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘The law upon this subject seems to be, the reserved per cent to be withheld until the completion of the work to be done is as much for the indemnity of him who may be a guarantor of the performance of the contract as for him for whom it is to be performed____ Equitably, therefore, the. sureties in such cases are entitled to have the sum agreed upon held as a fund out of which they may be indemnified, and if the principal releases it without their consent it discharges them from their undertaking. The principle is, the withdrawal of the fund agreed upon as security for performance of the contract without his consent is a prejudice to the surety or guarantor.’”
6 later decisions 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.