Maresh v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2009
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Merchants National Bank v. McAnulty · Greene v. Anderson · 4 Tex. Civ. App. 537 - Graves v. Smith · 25 Ohio App. 476 - Reel v. Combes
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.
“commensurate with and in proportion to the benefits flowing to each of the [shareholders]” because “equity demands ... that he who received the greater benefit from the contract should bear the burden proportionate to his benefits”); but see Brooke v. Boyd, 80 Wash. 213 , 141 P. 357, 358 (1914). 46 . Restatement (Third) of Suretyship & Guaranty § 57 cmt. c.”
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.