Rankin v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1846
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1982
23 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But there is no evidence whatever tending to prove a prior demand of payment and refusal to pay on the part of MeOourtney and notice of that demand and refusal given in a reasonable time thereafter-to Childs. Proof of such notice is absolutely necessary to charge Childs upon his guaranty unless the plaintiffs can show that McCourtney was insolvent and that Childs was apprised of their failure to give him such notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.