Williams v. Vreeland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

162 federal appellate · 16 district · 26 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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We must not be understood as saying that the mere transfer of the stocks on the books of the bank, to the name of the defendant, imposed upon her the individual liability attached by law.to the position of shareholder in a national banking association. If the transfers were, in effect, without her knowledge and consent, and she was not informed of what was so done — nothing more appearing — she would not be held to have assumed or incurred, liability for the debts, contracts, and engagements of the bank. But if, after the transfers, she joined in the application to convert the savings bank into a national bank, or in any other mode approved, ratified, or acquiesced in such transfers, or accepted any of the benefits arising from the ownership of the stock thus put in her name on the books of the bank, she was liable to- be treated as a shareholder, with such responsibility as the law imposes upon- the shareholders of national banks.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Sogn

2. ““The established rule is: ‘Where both parties request a peremptory instruction and do nothing more, they thereby assume the facts to be undisputed and, in effect, submit to the trial judge the determination of the inferences proper to be drawn therefrom.’ And upon review a finding of fact by the trial court under such circumstances must stand, if the record discloses substantial evidence to support it. Anderson v. Messenger, 158 Fed. Rep. 250 , 253; Beuttell v. Magone, supra, 157; Empire State Cattle Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Ry. Co., 210 U. S. 1 , 8; Sena v. American Turquoise Co., 220 U. S. 497 , 501; American National Bank v. Miller, 229 U. S. 517 , 520; Mead v. Chesbrough Bld. Co., 151 Fed. Rep. 998 , 1002; American National Bank v. Miller, 185 Fed. Rep. 338 , 341.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Freeman v. W. B. Moses & Sons, Inc.

3. ““As without doubt there is substantial evidence tending to show she had no actual intention to ratify, affirm, or acquiesce'in her husband’s unauthorized act, we must accept that as finally established.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Sogn