United States v. First National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 245 · 1914
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 29 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Old Colony Co v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1932)
28 federal appellate · 29 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFirst Nat. Bank of Detroit v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United States v. Kagama · Heckman v. United States · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he responsibility for the justice or wisdom of legislation rests with the Congress, and it is the province of the courts to enforce, not to make, the laws.”
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.