Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 738 · 1824
Citation profile
506 federal appellate · 231 district · 426 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,312 later decisions (316 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
506 federal appellate · 231 district · 426 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Fleckner v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Bank of Columbia v. Patterson's · Irwin v. Henderson
Cited together with Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Myers · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
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 2,312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial power is never exercised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Summers · Tennessee v. Davis“when a question to which the judicial power of the Union is extended by the constitution forms an ingredient of the original cause, it is in the power of Congress to give the circuit courts jurisdiction of that cause.”
26 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.