guarantor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 63 U.S. 341 - Rey v. Simpson · 1859Most cited · 49 citing opinions
one whose endorsement of a note was subsequent to the making of the note, and who put his name there at the request of the maker, pursuant to a contract with the payee for further indulgence or forbearance
How often courts cite the case defining “guarantor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “guarantor” — 49 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.