Yates v. Jones National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
206 U.S. 158 · 1907
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 33 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1993 · most notably Wade v. Mayo (1948), Corsicana Nat Bank of Corsicana v. Johnson (1919)
68 federal appellate · 33 district · 30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Leisy v. Hardin · Briggs v. Spaulding · Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Davis v. Elmira Savings Bank · Cook Co Nat Bank 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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the directors of any national! banking association shall knowingly violate, or knowingly permit any of the officers, agents, or servants of the association to violate any of the provisions of this title, all the rights, privileges, and franchises of the association shall be thereby forfeited. Such violation shall, however, be determined and adjudged by a proper circuit, district, or territorial court of the United States, in a suit brought for that purpose by the comptroller of the currency, in his own name, before the association shall be declared dissolved. And in cases of such violation, every director who participated in or assented to the same shall be held liable in his personal and individual capacity for all damages which the association, its shareholders, or any other person, shall have sustained in consequence of such violation.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Of course, in what has been said we have confined ourselves to the precise question arising for decision, and therefore must not be understood as ex pressing an opinion as to whether and to what extent directors of national banks may be civilly liable by the principles of common law for purely voluntary statements made to individuals or the public, embodying false representations as to the financial condition of the bank, by which one who has rightfully relied .upon such representation has been damaged. And because we have applied in this case, to the duty expressly imposed by the statute, the standard of conduct established therein, we must not be considered as expressing an opinion upon the correctness of the views enunciated by the court below concerning the standard which should be applied solely under the principles of the common law, to fix the civil liabilities of directors in an action of deceit. See Briggs v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132 [ 11 Sup. Ct. 924 , 35 L. Ed. 662 ].””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In other words, as the statute does not relieve the directors from the common-law duty to be honest and diligent, the oath exacted responds to such requirements.””
3 later decisions 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.