Adair v. Bank of America Nat Trust & Savings Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 350 · 1938
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Wright v. Union Central Life Insurance (1938), John Hancock Mut Life Ins Co v. Bartels (1939)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Bradley v. Fisher · Mueller v. Nugent
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the cost of protecting a fund in court is everywhere recognized as a dominant charge on that fund.”
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.