American National Bank v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 517 · 1913
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 12 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited (1937), Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-Green (1916)
102 federal appellate · 12 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAmerican Nat. Bank of Nashville v. Miller (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Evans v. United States · Beuttell v. Magone · St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Johnston · National Bank v. Burkhardt
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the evidence before us presents another phase of the recurring question as to when and how far notice to an agent is notice to his principal. In view of the many decisions on the subject it is unnecessary to do more than to apply them to the facts of this case. If [Música] within the scope of his office had knowledge of a fact which it was his duty to declare and not to his interest to conceal, then his knowledge is to be treated as that of the bank; for he is then presumed to have done what he ought to have done, and to have actually given the information to his principal.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There are some disadvantages of sending a cheek for collection directly to the bank on which it is drawn, but when such bank performs the dual function of collecting and crediting the transaction is closed, and, in the absence of fraud or mutual mistake, is equivalent to payment in usual course. First Nat. Bank v. Burkhardt, 100 U. S. 686 , 689, 25 L. Ed. 766 , 768. In the present case it was as though an officer of the'Macón bank had presented the cheek to the teller of the Nashville-bank, and, on receiving the money, had paid it back over the counter for deposit to the-credit of the Macon bank.””
2 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.