Becovitz v. Saperstein’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1984
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The undertaking obligated the surety to. return the property involved ‘to the defendant’ if the return was adjudged; that is, to those who are defendants at the' time the judgment is rendered. This interpretation does not change or enlarge the liability of the surety, although it may change the beneficiary. The suit was instituted to determine the rights of the parties in the property • in question, and such right could only be settled by the adjudication. But one bond is contemplated for the return of property in one action, and that is for the "benefit of any party to the suit when the return is adjudged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. Payne
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.