Ferguson v. McCarrell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2010
6 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 Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Commercial Standard Insurance Co. · Universal Metals & MacHinery, Inc. v. Bohart · Hopkins v. First National Bank at Brownsville · Francis Smith & Co. v. Ojerholm · Reece v. First State Bank of Denton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Payment guaranteed” or equivalent words added to a signature mean that the signer engages that if the instrument is not paid when due he will pay it according to its tenor without resort by the holder to any other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.