Webb v. Freng’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1985
15 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 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. American Blower Co. · Conn v. State ex rel. Stutsman · Kaufmann v. Cooper · Barker & Stewart Lumber Co. v. Marathon Paper Mills Co. · Doll v. Crume
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also true, . . . that sureties, especially gratuitous sureties, are favorites of the law and have a right to stand upon the strict terms of their obligation when ascertained, [citation omitted]” Webb v. Freng, 181 Wis. 39, 44 , 194 N.W. 155 (1923).”
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.