Jones National Bank v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 18 district · 25 state decisions

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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the defendant Thompson participated in or assented to the making and publication of the official reports to the Comptroller of the Currency, which were made in the year 1892, knowing that they vere false reports, he was liable to the plaintiffs deceived and damaged thereby under the express terms of the statute; and he could not escape this liability simply because, while he thus participated or assented, other directors gave the formal attestation.” Thomas v. Taylor, 224 U. S. 73 ( 56 L. Ed. 673 , 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 403, see, also, Rose’s U. S. Notes.), and other authorities cited therein.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coughlin v. State Bank · Coughlin v. State Bank of Portland

2. ““If this finding, fairly construed, did not import more than mere neglect or inattention, it would not.be sufficient to sustain a recovery; for Congress did not make negligence the test of liability, but the fact that the act was violated knowingly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grandprey v. Bennett

3. ““Where by law a responsibility is made to arise from the violation of a statute knowingly, proof of something more than negligence is required.; that is, that the violation must in effect be intentional.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dudley v. Hawkins