Hayes v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1819
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 1970 · most notably American Surety Co of New York v. Bethlehem Nat Bank of Bethlehem Pa (1941), Knighton v. Curry (1878)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The surety, by his very character and relation as surety, has an interest that the mortgage taken from the principal debtor should be dealt with in good faith, and held in trust, not only for the creditor’s security, but for the surety’s indemnity. A mortgage so taken by the creditor is taken and held in trust, as well for the secondary interest of the surety, as fo* the more direct and immediate benefit of the creditor; and the latter must do no willful act, either to poison it, in the first instance, or to destroy or cancel it, after-wards.””
2 later decisions 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.