Miller v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 680 · 1824
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States (1896), United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1915)
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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 Speake v. The United States · Shrider's Lessee v. Morgan · Moore v. Lessee of Bickham
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Nothing can bo dearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrino, that the liability of a surety is not to bo extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract. To the extent, and in the manner, and under the circumstances pointed out in his obligation, he is bound, and no fur slier. It is not sufficient that he may sustain no injury by a change in the contract or that it may even be for his benefit. He has a right to stand upon the very terms of his contract, and, if he does not assent to any variation of it. and a variation is made, it is fatal.””
11 later decisions 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.