Riddle Co v. Mandeville and Jamesson’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 322 · 1809
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc. (2008), Board of Public Works v. Columbia College (1873)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 In re Lybarger · Rush v. Parker
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the real questions in the case are understood to be whether the plaintiffs, as indorsees of a promissory note, have a right, under the laws of Virginia, to receive its amount from the indorser, on the insolvency of the maker; whether the defendants, as the original indorsers of the note, are ultimately responsible for it; and whether equity will decree the payment to be immediately made, by the person ultimately responsible, to the person who is actually entitled to receive the money. * * * The maker having proved insolvent, the plaintiffs have a legal right to claim payment from Mc-Clenachan, and, on making that payment, McClenachan would be reinvested with all his original rights in the note, and would be entitled to demand payment from Mandeville & Jameson. If there were twenty successive indorsers of a note, this circuitous course might be pursued, and by the time the ultimate indorser was reached the value of the note would he expended in the pursuit. This circumstance alone would afford a strong reason for enabling the holder to bring all the indorsers into iliat court which could in a single decree put an end to litigation. X'o principle adverse to such a proceeding is perceived. Its analogy to tlie familiar case of a suit in chancery by a creditor against tlie legatees of his debtor is not very remote. If an executor shall have distributed the estate of bis testator, the creditor has an action at law against him, and he has his remedy against the legatees. The cr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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