Davis v. McAlpine’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Charters are not requisite to banks of deposit and discount. Charters seem only requisite for conferring special privileges: as, to exempt the owners of the banks from personal liability for debts; to enable them to issue paper currency, etc. . . . “From this hasty review we learn very distinctly that the term bank does not necessarily refer to a chartered institution; though it includes all such, and is used in our own constitution simply in reference to that class of banks. . . . But in later years they (private banks of discount and deposit) have become numerous, and are discharging a large portion of the banking business. The public attention, has been attracted to them, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of private and chartered banks have been largely discussed, and the public mind has been, and is, divided upon the question of their claims to public favor. Under these circumstances, we incline to the opinion that the legislature, by the code' of 1852, designed to put these two classes of banks on an equal footing in the particular specified.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Essner

2. ““ We think a note payable at a bank is, in legal contemplation, payable in the bank; and that a note payable at or in a bank is, in such contemplation, payable to the holder, or his agent, in the bank, at its counter.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parkinson v. Finch