Becker v. Faber’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Dallas Aerospace, Inc. v. CIS Air Corp. (2003), Yeazell v. Copins (1965)
12 federal appellate · 27 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 Page v. . Krekey · Paine v. . Jones · National Park Bank v. . Koehler · Cambridge Savings Bank v. Hyde · Antisdel v. . Williamson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the defendant’s [surety’s] obligation is strictissimi juris, and he is discharged by any alteration of the contract, to which [the] guaranty applied, whether material or not, and the courts will not inquire whether it is or is not to his injury.””
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.