Guaranty Trust Co. v. Henwood’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 federal appellate · 3 district · 47 state decisions

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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “declared policy of Congress to maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Bryant v. Washington Mutual Bank · Radue v. Zanaty

2. ““Having thus unmistakably stamped illegality upon both outstanding and future contractual provisions designed to require payment by debtors in a frozen money value rather than in a dollar of legal tender current at date of payment, Congress — apparently to obviate any possible misunderstanding as to the breadth of its objective — added, with studied precision, a catchall second sentence sweeping in ‘every obligation’, existing or future, ‘payable in money of the United States’, irrespective of ‘whether or not any such provision is contained therein or made with respect thereto.’ The obligations hit at by Congress were those ‘payable in money of the United States.’ All such obligations were declared dischargeable ‘upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency [of the United States] which at the time of the payment is legal tender for public and private debts.’ ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 288 Pa. Super. 143 - Commonwealth v. Venen · Aztec Properties, Inc. v. Union Planters National Bank of Memphis

3. “The broad and comprehensive national authority over the subjects of revenue, finance and currency is derived from the aggregate of the powers granted to the Congress, embracing the powers to lay and collect taxes, to borrow money, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standards of weights and measures, and the added express power 'to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution' the other enumerated powers.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 1 Kan. App. 2d 301 - Allen v. Craig · Southern Capital Corp. v. Southern Pacific Co.