Calloway v. Snapp’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1936
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled and undisputed law that a surety is only bound by the very terms of his contract ; and that if the creditor does any act which, in contemplation of law, alters the surety’s liability, increases his. risk, or deprives him, even for a moment, of the right to pay the debt and assume the position of the creditor, or of his right to seek indemnity, the surety is thereby discharged, and the fact that the surety may not have been actually injured is immaterial..” Calloway v. Snapp, 78 Ky. 561 ; Pond Creek Coal Co. v. Citizens T. & G Co., 170 Ky. 601 .”
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.