Title Guaranty Surety Company v. William Francis Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
224 U.S. 346 · 1912
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Lewis v. Quality Coal Corp. (1957), Clark v. Compania Ganadera De Cananea, S. A. (1963)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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 American Surety Co of New York v. Pauly · Thompson v. Phenix Ins Co of Brooklyn N Y · Moulor v. American Life Insurance · Imperial Fire Insurance v. Coos County · National Bank v. Insurance 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe plaintiff was plainly entitled to recover upon proving tbe bond, an embezzlement, and a breach, by a refusal to indemnify. It was not obliged to aver that it bad made tbe examinations which it agreed should be made. If it bad failed in that duty, it was for tbe surety company to so plead and prove.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The coming into effect of a contract may be made to depend upon the hap pening or performance of a condition. But a condition subsequent presupposes a contract in effect which may be defeated by the happening or performance of a condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tbe loss was due to tbe neglect of tbe employer to supervise tbe conduct of tbe employee by making sucb monthly examinations of bis accounts as it agreed to make or bave made.””
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.