American Bonding Co. v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Meyer (1912), Hope Spoke Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co. (1912)
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 American Surety Co of New York v. Pauly · Guarantee Co. of North America v. Mechanics' Savings Bank & Trust Co. · Cushman v. United States Life Insurance · Providence Life Assurance Society v. Reutlinger · Franklin Life Insurance v. Galligan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms of the bond and the alleged warranty in the application do not call for an examination to be made by a committee of expert accountants. It was only provided that the examination should be made by the auditing committee of the bank directors. This provision contemplating no more than just what was done — an examination by a committee of men selected from the ordinary business avocations, reasonably capable of comprehending the condition of the accounts of the bank.””
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.