Burr v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1991
2 federal appellate · 10 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.
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.
““If the creditor does any act injurious to the surety or inconsistent with his rights, or if he • omits to do any act when required by the surety which his duty enjoins him to do, and the omission proves injurious to the surety, in all such • eases the latter will be discharged, and he may set up such conduct as a defense to any suit brought against him if any at law, in all events in equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nunn v. Smith““The surety, by his very character and relation of surety, has an interest that the mortgage taken from the principal debtor, should be dealt with in good faith, and held in trust, not only for the creditor’s security, but for the surety’s indemnity. ⅜ ⅜ * The [creditor] must do no willful act, either to poison it, in the first instance, or to destroy or cancel it afterwards.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nunn v. Smith
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.