Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Continental Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
219 F.2d 645 · 1955
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2010
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Fosmire v. . National Surety Co. · Buffalo Cement Company v. . McNaughton · McGrath v. American Surety 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * MOJAVE ELECTRIC COMPANY, as Principal, and NATIONAL UNION INDEMNITY COMPANY, as Surety, are held and firmly bound unto SOUTHERN CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., Augusta, Georgia, in the sum of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX AND NO/lOO DOLLARS ($117,776.00), for the payment of which sum, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators and successors, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. “The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the Principal has entered into a certain subcontract, hereto attached, with Southern Construction Company, Inc., dated SEPTEMBER 22, 1959. “Now, if the said Principal shall well and truly perform all of the work and furnish all the labor and materials required by said subcontract, and any changes: or additions thereto which may hereafter be made, and shall perform all the undertakings stipulated in said subcontract, and shall promptly make payment to all persons supplying labor and materials in the prosecution of the work provided for in said subcontract, then this obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and effect. “No extension of time given to the said Principal for the performance of said subcontract, and no change in said subcontract shall release the Surety hereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““not to surmise which line of judicial precedent a Vermont court would follow if presented with the case, but rather, by looking to the same sources which a Vermont court would presumably consult and by weighing the comparative reasoning of learned authors and conflicting judicial decisions for their intrinsic soundness, to define the pertinent law which when thus ascertained is presumably the law of Vermont even though as yet unannounced by the Vermont Court.” 219 F.2d at page 647 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.