Moser v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1992
2 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Redmond v. Commerce Trust Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 1929 two St. Louis banks consolidated. The Mercantile Trust Company and the National Bank of Commerce formed the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company. The charter of the National Bank of Commerce was retained to facilitate the transfer of fiduciary duties to the new bank. The capital of the National Bank of Commerce was reduced to $350,000; consisting of 3,500 shares of $100 par value stock and a surplus of $75,000. The Mer- eantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company owned all of that stock. In August 1930, the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company opened a subsidiary bank in midtown St. Louis under the retained charter of the National Bank of Commerce and changed the name of the new bank to the Mercantile-Commerce National Bank in St. Louis (hereinafter referred to as ‘National Bank’). “In 1933 the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System directed Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company (that bank and its successor, Mercantile Trust Company, will be hereinafter referred to as ‘Trust Company’) to divest itself of the ownership of the shares of stock of National Bank. As a result, and contrary to the contention of Trust Company as to the legality of its ownership of the stock of, and the operation of, National Bank, Trust Company complied with that order to the extent herein described. On June 11, 1934, Trust Company entered into a trust agreement whereby it transferred title to the 3,500 shares of National Bank’s stock to five trustees. Those five trust”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.