Gato v. Warrington’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2007
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Solary v. Webster · Truckee Lodge v. Wood · Carson Opera House Ass'n v. Miller · State ex rel. Gore v. Montague
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sureties have a right to stand upon the strict terms of their engagement, and we discover no specific agreement on their part to indemnify appellant against liens for work done and material furnished in the construction of the buildings, nor is such a liability contained in the reasonably necessary import of the terms of the obligation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoddard v. Hibbler
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.