Caplan v. Seidman’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1997
5 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 Frantz Tractor Co. v. Wyoming Valley Nursery · Grady v. Schiffer · Housing Mortgage Corp. v. Tower Development & Investment Corp. · Stewart v. Jackson · Pennsylvania Co. v. Lebanon Building & Loan Ass'n
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of whether the agreement signed by Knob and Benjamin Caplan was a contract of suretyship or of indemnity ..., it clearly appears that the warrant of attorney to confess judgment was signed only by Seidman and there was accordingly no authorization to enter judgment against Knob.... It is our view that the judgment was properly stricken as to Knob.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to indemnify [the signer] and save him harmless against any loss due to nonpayment of this note.”
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.