Beall v. New Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 535 · 1872
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1977 · most notably Johnson v. Chicago & Pacific Elevator Co. (1886), Michigan Trust Co. v. Ferry (1913)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Drenkle v. Sharman
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party who outers his name as surety on an appeal bond does so with Ml knowledge of the responsibilities incurred. In view of the law relating to the subject, it is equivalent to a consent that judgment shall be entered against him if the appellant fails to sustain his appeal. If judgment may thus bo entered on a recognizance, and against stipulators in adinh'alty, we see no reason in the nature of things, or in the provisions of the Constitution, why this effect should not be given to appeal bonds in other actions, if the Legislature deems it expedient. No fundamental constitutional principle is involved. No fact is to be ascertained for the purpose of rendering the sureties liable, which is not apparent in the record itself. No object (except mere delay) can be subserved by compelling the appellee to bring a separate action upon the appeal bond.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in case of appeal in civil suits, if the judgment of the appellate court be against the appellant, it shall be rendered against him and his securities in the appeal bond ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hopkins v. Orr
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.