Viele v. Hoag’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1925
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The subject of equitable relief in behalf of sureties is one of original jurisdiction in a court of chancery. The peculiar rights of a surety originated in, and are exclusively the growth of, equity. Formerly it was held in several instances that the remedy of the surety was only in equity, and could not be made available in courts of common law. But it is now held as a general rule ‘that the liability of sureties is governed by the same principles at law as in equity.’ And probably with few exceptions the same considerations which are sufficient in equity to discharge the surety will be available for the same purpose at law. 2 Lead. Cases in Equity, 365, 386, in notes to Ress v. Berrington.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitcomb v. Shultz
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.