Townsend v. . Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1937 · most notably Shutts v. . Fingar (1885), Nelson v. Webster (1904)
1 district · 24 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a surety who pays a debt for his principal has a right to be put in the place of the creditor, and to avail himself of every means the creditor had to enforce payment against the principal debtor, is a principle which I had supposed incontestable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClure v. Johnson
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.