Kirkland v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2000
most recently cited
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Spires v. Lawless · Citizens Bank of Smithville v. Lair · Higgins v. Deering Harvester Co. · 226 Mo. App. 869 - Missouri Finance Corp. v. Roos
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.
““[T]he rule is so strict that the courts will not stop to inquire whether the alteration was injurious or beneficial to the surety. The reason is that contracts of suretyship are strictly construed in favor of the surety, and he has a right to stand upon the exact contract he made; and no one, not even a court can change it in any respect. ...””
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.