Posadas v. National City Bank’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 497 · 1936
Citation profile
455 federal appellate · 118 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,087 later decisions (113 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978)
455 federal appellate · 118 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Thomas Wood Junior v. United States · Murdock v. City of Memphis · United States v. Tynen · Bear Lake & River Water Works & Irrigation Co. v. Garland
Cited together with Morton v. Mancari · United States v. Borden Co. · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Watt v. Alaska
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 1,087 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal rule is that repeals by implication are not favored.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the two [acts] are repugnant in any of their provisions, the latter act, without any repealing clause, operates to the extent of the repugnancy as a repeal of the first.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and embraces new provisions, plainly showing that it was intended as a substitute for the first act.”
2 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.