Harris v. . Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1972 · most notably Basket v. Hassell (1882), In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of James (1895)
2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Mandeville v. Welch · Luke Tiernan v. James Jackson · Craig v. Tucker · Gilman v. Burgess
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The customer deposits his money in a bank for safekeeping, with the understanding that he may draw by checks, in such sums, and at such times, as may suit his convenience. The bank or banker receives it in that condition, and undertakes to keep the amount and pay the money accordingly. Checks are used and treated as cash, and by the course of business they are paid by the bank or banker on whom they are drawn with the same punctuality and certainty as if the deposits were specifically the money of the customers. Checks are therefore practically equivalent to a transfer of so much of the fund deposited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Delivery to the donee of such an instrument as will enable him, by force of the instrument itself, to reduce the fund into possession, will suffice,’ is the plaintiff’s doctrine. This might safely be conceded. It might even be conceded that a delivery out of the donor’s control of an instrument, without which he could not recover the fund from his debtor or agent, would also suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Basket v. Hassell“But there appears to be no sucb distinction. A delivery of possession is indispensable in either case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Basket v. Hassell
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.