Citizens' Bank v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
192 U.S. 73 · 1904
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc. (1995)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · New Orleans v. Citizens' Bank · Railroad Company v. Peniston · Deposit Bank of Frankfort v. Board of Councilmen of the City of Frankfort · Farrington v. Tennessee
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Its proper office is to help to solve ambiguities, not to compel an immediate surrender to them — to be an element in decision,, and effective, "maybe, when all other tests of meaning have been employed which experience has afforded, and which it is the duty of courts to consider when rights are claimed under a statute.” Citizens’ Bank v. Parker, 192 U. S. 73 , 86, 24 Sup. Ct. 181 , 186 ( 48 L. Ed. 346 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The capital of said bank shall be exempt from any tax laid by the state.””
1 later decision 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.