Penn v. Bornman’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1976 · most notably Kadish v. Garden City Equitable Loan & Building Ass'n (1894), McNulta v. Corn Belt Bank (1896)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Armstrong v. Toler · Law v. People ex rel. Huck · Cincinnati Mutual Health Assurance Co. v. Rosenthal · Milton v. Haden · Starkweather v. American Bible Society
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the distinction in some of the old cases between malum prohibitum and malum in se has long since been exploded, both in this country and England. ( Cannon v. Bryce , 3 Barn. Ald. 179 (5 Eng. C.L.); Aubert v. Maze , 2 Bos. Pul. 371; Bank of United States v. Owens , 2 Pet. 539 [ 7 L.Ed. 508 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McManus v. Fulton
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.