Van Marel v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1985
8 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 Dugan Clark v. The United States · Winton Motor Carriage Co. v. Broadway Automobile Co. · Pinney v. McGregory · Tuskaloosa Cotton-Seed Oil Co. v. Perry · Keck v. State ex rel. National Cash Register 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The promise or undertaking of a guarantor differs from that of a surety, in that it is always to pay the debt of another, while that of the surety is to pay a debt which becomes his upon the principal’s failure to pay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““His (the guarantor’s) responsibility to his guarantees, or their assigns, rests upon his guaranty, and not upon the terms of the note itself; hence he is only secondarily liable upon the latter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.