Lasher v. . Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1974
1 federal appellate · 19 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The breach of that promise gave [the lessee] a cause of action against the plaintiff, but this cause of action in favor of Gibbs [the lessee and principal maker of the bond] cannot be available to the sureties. It belongs to Gibbs and not to them. * * * The nonperformance or partial performance of Lasher’s engagement to Gibbs is not to be regarded as a failure of consideration, but as an independent cause of action, which Gibbs, and he only, may assert. It is in his election to determine whether it shall be used defensively, or whether he will bring his own action for the damages, or whether he will forego his claim altogether. The defendants have no control over him in this respect, and cannot borrow and avail themselves of his rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joyce v. Cockrill
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.