Tyler v. Walt’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Canter v. Koehring Company (1973), Sanderson v. Frost (1941)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Cline v. Crescent City Railroad · Salem Brick & Lumber Co. v. LeSassier · Succession of Harris
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it would be contrary to common sense and violative of the purpose of the bond for us to include among the obligees or indemnitees a party who was neither privy to the contract nor to the consideration, and to sanction a suit by such third party against the surety company, as obligor, where no such result was intended by the contracting parties.”
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.