Argonaut Insurance Company v. Town of Cloverdale Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 417 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Heiar v. Crawford County (1984), 561 F. Supp. 656 - Keene Corp. v. International Fidelity Insurance (1983)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 179 Ind. App. 693 - Smith v. P. & B. CORP. · United States Industries Inc v. F D Rich Co Inc · 61 Tenn. App. 244 - Central Towers Apartments, Inc. v. Martin · 156 Ind. App. 483 - Indiana Telco Federal Credit Union v. Young
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he contract between the town and HESCO that Argonaut guaranteed does specify requirements that the town did not observe in making the prepayments in issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is discharged if the obligee under the suretyship contract ... makes payments to the principal ... beyond those provided for in the contract”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a surety is not discharged by reason of an unauthorized payment made in good-faith reliance on [the certificate of progress]”
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.