Leggett v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 66 · 1858
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1994 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Jenkins v. National Surety Co. (1928)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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 Miller v. Stewart · United States v. Boyd · Stevens v. Bell · M'Gill v. President of the Bank
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ureties are never held responsible beyond the clear and absolute terms and meaning of their undertakings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case before us, the surety had been compelled to pay the whole amount of his bond by process from the State courts, before the present defendants obtained their judgment against him, but after the institution of their suit. This would have been a good defence to the action if pleaded puis darrein continuance * * * ” p. 313, 13 L.Ed. 145”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rolen v. Rauhuff
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.