Scott v. Depeyster’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1943 · most notably Briggs v. Spaulding (1891), Hun v. . Cary (1880)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 New York Firemen Insurance v. Ely · North River Insurance v. Lawrence
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which requires the president or directors of any moneyed'institution to adopt'a system of espionage in relation to their secretary or cashier or any subordinate agent, or to set a watch upon all their actions. While engaged in the performance of the general duties of tjheir station, they must be supposed to act honestly until the contrary appears; and the law does not require their employers to entertain jealousies and suspicions without some apparent reason. Should any circumstance transpire to awaken a just suspicion of their want of integrity, and it be suffered to pass unheeded, a different rule would prevail if a loss ensued. But, without some fault on the part of the directors, amounting either to negligence or fraud, they cannot be liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Spaulding
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.