United States v. Guaranty Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 340 · 1934
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942), Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States (1943)
55 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
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
reviewedUnited States v. Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Grigsby v. Russell · Texas v. White · Direction Der Disconto-Gesellschaft v. United States Steel Corp.
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But under settled principles of conflict of laws, adopted by both federal and state courts, the validity of a transfer of a chattel brought into a country by the consent of the owner is governed by its law; and that rule applies to negotiable instruments.”
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.