Abilene National Bank v. Dolley’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 1 · 1913
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Farmers & Merchants Bank of Monroe v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1923), Leet v. Union Pacific Railroad (1944)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · United States v. Steffens · Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio Railway Company v. State of Texas · Crutcher v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Orient Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Daggs
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The national banks are free to come into the scheme. The suggestion that they could not come in and remain national banks is simply a statement of the situation of -all competitors. They cannot retain the advantages of their adverse situation and share those of the parties with whom they contend. 228 U.S. at 4 .”
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.