Stern v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2007
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.
Relationships
Relies on Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Reese v. United States · Griswold v. Hazard · Page v. . Krekey · Warren v. Lyons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing can be clearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrine that the liability of a surety is not to be extended by implication beyond the terms of his contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The guarantor] has a right to stand upon the very terms of his contract, and if he does not assent to any variation of it, and a variation is made, it is fatal.”
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.