Houghton v. Ely’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1952
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Niday v. Harvey & Co. · Union Bank v. . Coster's Executors · Church v. . Brown · Day v. Elmore · Drake v. Markle
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The guarantor most frequently receives nothing of value, the true consideration being the credit obtained on the faith of such guaranty by the principal debtor. To uphold a guaranty upon a consideration which is false, one which appears so on the face of the writing, or is shown to be so by proof of the facts and circumstances under which it was executed, seems more clearly to violate the letter of the statute than to uphold it upon the true consideration, which, though not expressed in the guaranty itself when considered as a separate instrument, fully appears when the guaranty is read in connection with the principal contract, of which it in fact, as well as law, constitutes an original and most essential part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobi v. Cielinski
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.