Union Trust Co. v. Soble’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Ramsay Scarlett & Co. v. Commissioner (1974), University National Bank v. Wolfe (1977)
3 federal appellate · 33 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.
Relationships
Relies on Leather Manufacturers' Bank v. Morgan · Leather Manuf'Rs' Nat Bank v. Morgan · Jordan Marsh Co. v. National Shawmut Bank · Hardy v. Chesapeake Bank · Murphy v. Metropolitan National Bank
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““44. Forged signature; effect of. “Where a signature is forged, or made without authority of the person whose signature it purports to be, it is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the instrument, or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature, unless the party, against whom it is sought to enforce such right, is precluded from setting up the forgery or want of authority.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is an established rule that when a bank receives money on deposit, it impliedly contracts to pay the depositor’s checks only to the persons to whom they are made payable or upon their genuine indorsements. A bank on which a check is drawn is bound at its peril to identify the payee and to ascertain that the indorsement on the check is genuine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not necessary to prove that benefit would certainly have accrued to the bank from an attempt to secure payment from the forger. The law presumes injury to the drawee from the drawer’s delay, and will not enter into a calculation as to whether injury did or did not occur to the drawee.””
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.