The Louisville Manufacturing Company v. Michael Welch’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 461 · 1850
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He [the guarantor], has already had notice of the acceptance of the guaranty and of the intention of the party to act under it. The rule requiring this notice, within a reasonable time after the acceptance is ab-. solute and imperative in this court, according to all the cases ; it is deemed essential to an inception of the contract; he is, therefore, advised of his accruing liabilities upon the guaranty, and may very well anticipate or be charged with notice of an amount of indebtedness to the extent of the credit pledged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Wells
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.