Cellers v. Meachem’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1947
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on National Citizens' Bank v. . Toplitz · Peo. Ex Rel. Commercial Cable Co. v. . Morgan · Hoffman v. Habighorst · Findley v. Hill · Bowen v. Clarke
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person secondarily liable on the instrument is discharged— “(1) By any act which discharges the instrument; “ (2) By the intentional cancellation of his signature by the holder ; “ (3) By the discharge of a prior party; “ (4) By a valid tender of payment made by a prior party; “(5) By a release of the principal debtor, unless the holder’s right of recourse against the party secondarily liable is expressly reserved; “ (6) By any agreement binding upon the holder to extend the time of payment, or to postpone the holder’s right to enforce the instrument, unless made wdth the assent of the party secondarily liable, or unless the right of recourse against such party is expressly reserved. ’ ’”
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.