Shannon v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1965 · most notably Franzen v. Southern Surety Co. (1926), Union Indemnity Co. v. State Ex Rel. McQueen Smith Farming Co. (1927)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 John Shields v. Isaac Thomas · Cucullu v. Hernandez · The Widow and Heirs of Benjamin Poydras De La Lande v. The Treasurer of the State of Louisiana · The "Connemara." · Chicago Lumber Co. v. Douglas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It should be noted that the surety company’s obligation is not to pay the mere statutory liens for labor and materials, but is governed by the terms of its contract. The contractors agreed to build the road and to pay ‘for all labor and material and all other obligations or liabilities incurred in the doing of the said work or performance of any of the things necessary’ thereunder, and to give the statutory bond. The defendant became surety for the full performance of all the terms of the contract, and all these bills were within the fair terms of that contract.””
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.