Craig v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1965
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 Thurston v. Prentiss · Watriss v. Pierce · Chadbourn v. Watts · Cook v. Dyer · Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank v. Kimmel
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.
““It is unnecessary for us to decide how far these views should be followed where there is no change_ of parties, or how far a surety may claim exemption where the substituted paper does not cancel the original liability, but is a mere renewal of it.””
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.