Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 93 Ohio App. 3d 157 - Four Seasons Environmental, Inc. v. Westfield Companies (1994), Elliot v. Durrani (2022)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 State ex rel. Weimer v. Industrial Commission · Seeley v. Expert, Inc. · Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company State of Ohio v. Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company · Mutual Finance Co. v. Politzer · Pulley v. Malek
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Logically, it makes no difference whether the premiums are paid into the fund before benefits and compensation are paid out (as might be the case with a contract involving a so-called “borrowed servant”) or are reimbursed back into the fund once payment to an employee has been made, as with a surety. In either case, the money is paid into the fund by a person or entity having a contractual obligation to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Farley, Inc.“'amounts to a good defense to the original liability of the principal, is a good defense for the sureties when sued upon the collateral undertaking.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. Panitch“a surety can assert the defenses of its principal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. Panitch
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.