Everley v. Equitable Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2010
1 district · 11 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 Knight & Jillson Co. v. Castle · Berkshire v. Young · American Surety Co. v. Pangburn · Holderbaugh v. Turpin · Wainright Trust Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract 'to charge any person, upon any special promise, to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be 'in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith'”
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.