Reid v. Lowden’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably Harvey v. Travelers Insurance Company (1964), Smith v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Ins. Co. (1965)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Auto Painting Repairing Co., Inc. v. Ware. · Quatray v. Wicker · Gardiner v. Erskine · Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. De Jean · Fridge v. Caruthers
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The remission, or conventional discharge in favor of one of the codebtors in solido, discharges all the others, unless the creditor has expressly reserved his right against the latter. “In the latter case, he can not claim the debt without making a deduction of the part of him to whom he has made the remission.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“makes no provision for any specific form of reservation. It has been held that there is nothing sacramental about the form ... it suffices that the intention to reserve a right against codebtors may be inferred from any expression in the release which negatives the intention to release them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.”
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.