Hibernia Savings Loan Society v. City and County of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
200 U.S. 310 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1997 · most notably Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. (1921), James v. Dravo Contracting Co. (1937)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Van Brocklin v. Anderson · Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston · St. Clair v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stocks, bonds, Treasury notes, and other obligations of the United States ... from taxation by or under State ... authority.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“legal tender notes and other notes and certificates of the United States payable on demand and circulating or intended to circu- late as currency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Davis
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.