Rey v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
63 U.S. 341 · 1859
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1943 · most notably Good v. Martin (1877), Shepherd v. May (1885)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Jackson ex dem. Van Vechten v. Sill · Tillman v. Wheeler · Hall v. Farmer & Doolittle
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where persons placed their names as indorsers at the inception of the note, not as a collateral undertaking, but as joint promisors with the maker, they are as much affected by the consideration paid by the plaintiff, and as clearly liable in the character of original promisors, as they would have been if they had signed their names under the name of the other defendant upon the inside of the" instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bonart v. Rabito
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.