Montgomery County v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
121 F. 17 · 1903
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1936
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 National Bank v. Burkhardt · Hart v. United States · United States v. Prescott · Smythe v. United States · United States v. Girault
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Was it ttie intention of the Legislature that no transactions with the board of revenue and the purchaser of the bonds and the treasurer should be permitted, except by the use of coin or bank bills? The statute must be construed in the light of commercial usage and common knowledge of business transactions. The word ‘money,’ when used in this statute, does not mean only coin and bank bills. ‘Such a construction,’ said Lyon, G. J., in State v. McFetridge, 84 Wis. 473 , 515, 54 N. W. 1 , 10, 998, 20 L. R. A. 223 , ‘would be extremely technical, and is, we think, uncalled for. “Money” is a generic term, and may mean, not only legal tender coin and currency, but also any other circulating medium, or any instruments or tokens in general use in the commercial world as the representatives of value.’ And it was held that a certificate of deposit was money within the meaning of a statute. In Taylor v. Robinson (D. C.) 34 Fed. 681 , Judge McOormick said: ‘The term “money” is used to designate the whole volume of the medium of exchange recognized by the custom of merchants and the laws of the country, just as the term “land” designates all real estate.’ In Allibone v. Ames, 9 S. D. 74 , 81, 68 N. W. 165 , 167, 33 L. R. A. 585 , the court applies this definition to a certificate of deposit: ‘When the certificate of deposit was delivered to plaintiff, and accepted by him, it had all the characteristics of money. Its return to the bank must be regarded as a deposit of that amount of curre”
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.