Finn v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 56 · 1891
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1939 · most notably Merrick v. N. W. Halsey & Co. (1917), Pauly v. State Loan & Trust Co. (1897)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Richmond v. Irons · Sanger v. Upton · Commissioners of Marion County v. Clark · Keyser v. Hitz · Whitney v. Butler
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is presumed to be the owner of the stock when his name appears upon the books of the bank as such owner and the burden of proof is upon him to show that he is in fact not the owner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No general rule can be laid down as to what will constitute, in any particular case, an acceptance of the transfer of stock or the equivalent thereof, in a ease where the transferee is in fact ignorant of the fact of transfer; but each case must be decided on its own facts. * * * The defendant, as vice-president and acting cashier of the bank, had the power himself to transfer the 40 shares back to McNany and the 10 shares back to De Walt. He did not do so, but, knowing that the 50 shares had been transferred to his credit and stood in his name upon the books, he suffered the matter to remain in that shape for twenty days, until the doors of the bank were closed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kenyon v. Fowler“will not knowingly violate or willingly permit to be violated any of the provisions of this title.”
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.