Chase Nat Bank v. City of Norwalk Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
291 U.S. 431 · 1934
Citation profile
199 federal appellate · 30 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 423 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Regal Knitwear Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1945), Richards v. Jefferson County (1996)
199 federal appellate · 30 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCity of Norwalk v. Equitable Trust Co. of New York (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. v. Mitchell · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Marshall v. Holmes · Simon v. Southern Railway Co. · Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor
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 423 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law does not impose upon any person absolutely entitled to a hearing the burden of voluntary intervention in a suit to which he is a stranger.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true that persons not technically agents or employees may be specifically enjoined from knowingly aiding a defendant in performing a prohibited act if their relation is that of associate or confederate. Since such persons are legally identified with the defendant and privy to his contempt, the provision merely makes explicit as to them that which the law already implies. See [In re] Lennon, 166 U.S. 548 , 17 S.Ct. 658 , 41 L.Ed. 1110 . But by extending the injunction to ‘all persons to whom notice of the injunction should come,’ the District Court assumed to make punishable as a contempt the conduct of persons who act independently and whose rights have not been adjudged according to law.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a decree against the mortgagor with respect to property does not bind a mortgagee whose interest was acquired before the commencement of the suit, unless he was made a party to the proceedings.”
4 later decisions 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.