Auten v. United States National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
174 U.S. 125 · 1899
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 15 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1984 · most notably Block v. Hirsh (1921), Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff (1934)
82 federal appellate · 15 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPark Hotel Co. v. Fourth Nat. Bank of St. Louis (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. Armstrong · Briggs v. Spaulding · Kennedy v. Gibson · Ex Parte Chetwood · Martin v. Webb
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A power so useful cannot be said to be illegitimate, and declared as a matter of law to be out of the usual course of business, and to charge. everybody connected with it with knowledge that it may be in excess of authority. It would seem, if doubtful at all, more like a question of fact, to be resolved in the particular case by the usage of the parties or the usage of communities.””
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.