Provident Life Trust Co of Philadelphia v. Mercer County Ky’s Empirical Analysis
170 U.S. 593 · 1898
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1987 · most notably Tulare Irrigation District v. Shepard (1902), Green County v. Mary Amis Quinlan Q (1909)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Town of Coloma v. Eaves · Claiborne Co v. Brooks · Buchanan v. Litchfield · County of Warren v. Marcy · Northern Nat Bank of Toledo Ohio v. Trustees of Porter Township
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe rule is different in regard to a deed, bond, or other instrument placed in the hands of a third person as an escrow, to be delivered on the happening of a future event or contingency. In that case, no title or interest passes until a delivery is made in pursuance of the terms and conditions upon which it was placed in the hands of the party to whom it was intrusted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““By a long series of decisions, such recitals are held conclusive, in favor of a bona fide holder of bonds, that precedent conditions prescribed by statute, and subject to the determination of those county officers, have been fully complied with.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While courts may properly see to it that proceedings for casting burdens upon a community comply with all the substantial requirements of a statute, in order that no burden may be recklessly or fraudulently imposed, yet such statutes are not of a criminal character, and proceedings are not to be so technically construed or limited as to make them a snare to those who are encouraged to invest in the securities of the municipality.””
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.