Ward v. . Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1950
6 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 Clark v. Miller · Clarkson v. Carter · Alsop v. Caines · Mitchell v. Thorp
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants insist that this is not a valid bond, for the reason that the statute requires the bond to be executed by the debtor or his agent, with such sureties as shall be approved by the officer, and that this bond has but one surety. An omission to procure more than one surely does not invalidate it. Johnson v. Laserre, 2 Ld. Raym. 1459; Mitchell v. Thorp, 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schneck v. Cobb
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.