Davis v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.2d 612 · 1926
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1993
6 federal appellate ·
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 Hull v. Burr · First National Bank v. Williams · Bowerman v. Hamner · Chesbrough v. Woodworth · Herrmann v. Edwards
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.
“The asserted cause of action now in question was not made one arising under the laws of the United States by the alleged facts that the negligence and mismanagement of the sued, directors in the conduct of the affairs of the bank constituted a violation of the oaths they took pursuant to the statute ... requiring that “each director, when appointed or elected shall honestly administer the affairs of such association,” etc. If the asserted liability existed, it arose, not as a result of a violation of their oaths by the directors or of a breach of any federal law, but as a result of the breach by the directors of their common-law duty to be honest and diligent in the administration of the affairs of the bank. The existence of liability for a breach of that common-law duty is not dependent upon the prescribed oath having been taken. That liability is one created by laws not enacted by Congress. Bowerman v. Hamner, 250 U.S. 504 , 39 S.Ct. 549 .”
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.