Yardley v. Philler’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 344 · 1897
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1986 · most notably Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. (1913), Dakin v. Bayly (1933)
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. Armstrong · Davis v. Elmira Savings Bank · Reynes v. Dumont · National Security Bank 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to setoff is governed by the state of things existing at the moment of insolvency, not by conditions thereafter arising....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver of Penn Square Bank, N.A. v. The Liberty National Bank & Trust Co., Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver of Penn Square Bank, N.A. v. Utica National Bank and Trust Company · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Na v. Liberty National Bank & Trust Co
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.