President Directors Company of the Bank of the United States v. President Directors Company of the Bank of the State of Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 333 · 1825
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Juilliard v. Greenman (1884), Leather Manufacturers' Bank v. Morgan (1886)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 48 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.
Relationships
Relies on Levy v. President of the Bank of the United States · Ensign v. Webster
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he receipt by a bank of forged notes, purporting to be its own, must be deemed an adoption of them. It has the means of knowing if they are genuine; if these means are not employed, it is certainly evidence of a neglect of that duty which the public have a right to require. And in respect to persons equally innocent, where one is bound to know and act upon his knowledge, and the other has no means of knowledge, there seems to be no reason for burdening the latter with any loss in exoneration of the former.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ease of Price v. Neale has never since been departed from; and in all the subsequent decisions in which it has been cited, it has had the uniform support of the court, and has been deemed a satisfactory authority.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bank notes constitute a part of the common currency of the country, and ordinarily pass as money. When they are received as payment, the receipt is always given for them as money. They are a good tender as money, unless specifically objected to; and as Lord Mansfield observed in Miller v. Race, 1 Burr, 457, they are not like bills of exchange, considered as mere securities or documents for debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haas
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.