Paxton v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Insurance Company v. Norton · Grigsby v. Russell · Phoenix Mut Life Ins Hartford Conn v. Doster · Titus v. . Glens Falls Insurance Company · 4 E.H. Smith 190 - Kiernan v. Dutchess County Mutual Insurance
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold the surety liable for advancements made or money loaned to the contractors to enable them to carry out the contract without the assent of the surety, unless the facts are such that it would be inequitable to not hold the surety liable, is to read into the contract a liability not assumed by the surety and a liability clearly not contemplated by the parties at the date of the execution of the bond.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.