Dickenson v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Broaddus v. Gresham (1943), International Fidelity Insurance v. Ashland Lumber Co. (1995)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Scott v. Armstrong · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Wooldridge · Smith v. Young · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Maxwell · Huse v. Ames
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly a guarantor who is held to liability under a bond which he has executed is not a volunteer in any sense in which that term has ever been used in the law. The fact that appellants were under no legal obligation to sign the bond in the first place is, of course, immaterial. A surety is not to be denied reimbursement or subrogation because he signed for accommodation rather than for profit. On the contrary, the accommodation surety has always been one of the favorites of the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is an implied contract of indemnity between the principal and his surety, which obliges the former to reimburse the latter who has paid his debt;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is elementary that one secondarily liable on an obligation ... who has satisfied the demands of the holder ... is entitled to reimbursement from the party primarily liable.”
1 later decision 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.