Bloom v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 28 - Cates Construction, Inc. v. Talbot Partners (1999), 21 Cal. 3d 624 - Regents of University of California v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1978)
5 federal appellate · 97 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 Roberts v. Security Trust & Savings Bank · Ryan v. Shannahan · 132 Cal. App. 2d 10 - Brock v. Western National Indemnity Co. · 52 Cal. App. 207 - Boole v. Union Marine Ins. Co., Ltd. · 98 Cal. App. 457 - Anderson v. Shaffer
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A surety is exonerated, except so far as he may be indemnified by the principal, if by any act of the creditor, without the consent of the surety the original obligation of the principal is‘altered in any respect, or the remedies or rights of the creditor against the principal, in respect thereto, [are] in any way impaired or suspended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The obligation of a guarantor must be neither larger in amount, nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; and if, in its terms, it exceeds it, it is reducible in proportion to the principal obligation."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule is that the liability of a surety (in the absence of a different contractual provision) accrues at the same time as that of the principal, or upon default of the principal.”
3 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.