The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 527 · 1829
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1983 · most notably Sorrells v. United States (1932), Olmstead v. United States (1928)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 26 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Wayman v. Southard · Bank of the United States v. Halstead · Bank of United States v. Waggener
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. Courts are instituted to carry into effect the laws of a country; how can they then become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law? * * * There can be no civil right, where there can be no legal remedy; and there can be no legal remedy, for that which is itself illegal.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ewell v. Daggs · Miller v. Ammon““A profit made, or loss imposed on the necessities of the borrower, whatever form, shape, or disguise it may assume, where the treaty is for a loan and the capital is to be returned at all events, has always been adjudged to be so much profit taken upon a loan, and tó be a violation of those laws which limit the lender to a specified rate of interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it could only have been upon the ground of an intention”
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.