People of Sioux County v. National Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 238 · 1928
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 33 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society (1975), Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974)
109 federal appellate · 33 district · 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNational Surety Co. v. Lyons (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In Re Peterson · Indianapolis and St Louis Railroad Company v. Horst · Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'n v. Mettler · The Baltimore · Bauserman v. Blunt
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)t is clear that it is the policy of the state to allow plaintiffs to recover an attorney's fee in certain cases, and it has made that policy effective by making the allowance of the fee mandatory on its courts in those cases. It would be at least anomalous if this policy could be thwarted and the right so plainly given destroyed by removal of the cause to the federal courts.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the question that we are considering was now presented for the first time, we would hesitate to say that this statute does not create and add to the contract a legal liability which would not exist under the contract prior to the enactment of this statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We accept this construction of the statute and accordingly set aside the conflicting interpretation of the court below, even though it antedated the determination by the state court. * * *””
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.