Atterbury v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 921 · 1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1993
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Craswell v. Biggs · Union Oil Co. of Calif. v. Lull
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indemnitor’s promise is not conditioned upon another’s nonperformance of duty.” Arant on Suretyship, § 17 (1931). Liability insurance is the typical example. The surety, however, promises to protect the promisee only in case a third party, who is primarily liable on the obligation, fails to perform. The creditorpromisee is entitled to compensation from the surety only in the event of default by the principal debtor. [Emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“made it more difficult for [the principal] to repay and thereby increased the risk ... [of] default”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.