Taylor v. Fleckenstein’s Empirical Analysis
30 F. 99 · 1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1964
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 United States v. Hodson · Douglass v. Howland · Leonard v. Vredenburgh · Rogers v. Kneeland · Hawkins v. Hawkins
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every one is presumed to know the law. Ignbrance, standing alone, can never be the basis of a legal right. If a bond is liable to the objection taken in this case, and the parties are dissatisfied, the objection should be made when the bond is presented for execution. If executed under constraint, tbe constraint will destroy it. But where it is voluntarily entered into, and the principal enjoys the benefits which it is intended to secure, and a breach occurs, it is then too late to raise the question of its validity. The parties are estopped from availing themselves of such a defense. In such eases there is neither injustice nor hardship in holding that the contract as made is the measure of the rights of the government and of the liability of the obligors.””
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.