Simson v. Bilderbeck, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2020
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.
Relationships
Relies on Petty v. Williams · Fidelity Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Atherton · People v. Jacobs · Henderson v. Le Duke · Prince v. National Union Fire Insurance Company
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.
“Comment 1: Subsection (1) recognizes that an accommodation party is always a surety (which includes a guarantor) . Comment 5: . . . Under ordinary principles of suretyship the accommodation party who pays is subrogated to the rights of the holder paid, and should have his recourse on the instrument.”
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.