Heyman v. Dooley’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1939
12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The guarantee must know, it is true, of the default of the principal, and this default may be unknown to the guarantor; but it is not a fact which lies within the exclusive or peculiar knowledge of the guarantor. On the contrary, it is a fact in regard to which the guarantor had the easy and accessible means of information, either by inquiry of the guarantee, or of the principal himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In all the standard authorities, the rule is stated that if an act is to be done by a third person, who is known, notice of his default is unnecessary.””
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.