Backus v. Feeks’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1992
4 federal appellate · 18 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 People's Lumber Co. v. Gillard · Northcraft v. Blumauer · Anderson v. Frye & Bruhn · Davis v. Statts · 61 Tex. Civ. App. 131 - Mitchell v. Hydraulic Building Stone Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Anderson v. Frye & Bruhn, 69 Wash. 89, 124 Pac. 499 , we held, that an unacknowledged lease of real property for the term of one year ‘with the privilege of two years’ renewal,’ at a stipulated monthly rental, created a paper tenancy for a period exceeding one year, that it was not enforceable as a lease for one year only, but that it was a lease from month to month, and terminable by either party upon his giving the notice provided by the statute, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8803. The language of the opinion is that the lease was ‘void and unenforceable’ as a lease for one year, in that it created a privilege of renewal for a period beyond one year, and that ‘the tenancy under which appellant was in possession of the property prior to October 1, 1910, was terminated on that day by notice and vacation.’ ” (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A guaranty of an existing contract may stand by itself, although the obligation guaranteed is invalid .... And as the guarantor may by the terms of his contract make himself liable for the principal debt, although it be invalid, the question of whether the liability of a guarantor is to be measured by the liability of the principal debtor is largely a matter of interpretation of the contract of guaranty.”
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.