Chautauque County Bank v. . Risley’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Smith v. . Reid (1892), Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Smith (1893)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The dealings of a corporation which apparently are consistent with its charter are not to be regarded as illegal and unauthorized without evidence tending to show that they are of such a character.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.