Fithian v. Jamar’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 373 Ill. App. 3d 1020 - Trossman v. Philipsborn (2007), Jenkins v. Karlton (1993)
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Cotham and Maldonado v. Board of County Commissioners · 139 Ind. App. 443 - McLochlin v. Miller · Betts v. Brown · Crothers v. National Bank · Jackson v. Cupples
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Division (A) [of R.C. 1303.51] recognizes that an accommodation party is always a surety (which includes a guarantor), and it is his only distinguishing feature, He [the accommodation party] differs from other sureties only in that his liability is on the instrument and he is a surety for another party to it. His obligation is therefore determined by the capacity in which he signs. An accommodation maker * * * is bound on the instrument without any resort to his principal, while an accommodation indorser may be liable only after presentment, notice of dishonor and protest.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“right of contribution is an inchoate claim which does not ripen into being unless and until ... [an obligor] pays more than her proportionate share”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pleasants v. Locke“An accommodation is one who signs the instrument in any capacity for the purpose of lending his name to another party to it. (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buchta v. Seng
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.