The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
24 U.S. 171 · 1826
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1933 · most notably Slocum v. New York Life Insurance (1913), Dred Scott v. John F a Sandford (1856)
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the present case being .brought here on a writ of. error, the whole record is under the consideration of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.