Wyatt v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1976
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 Interstate Trust & Banking Co. v. Young · Atkins v. Dixie Fair Co. · 19 La. App. 247 - Smith v. Van Arsdale · Neosho Milling Co. v. Farmers' Coop. Warehouse Stock Co. · Allen v. Gaar
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘According to the weight of authority the indorser of a negotiable instrument is entitled to any' specific security for the payment of the debt which the principal debtor may have given the holder, or which by operation of law the latter may have acquired (e. g., a judgment lien), and if the holder releases or voluntarily destroys such security, the indorser is discharged to the extent that such specific security would have gone to pay .the debt * * * *«”
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.