The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
31 U.S. 29 · 1832
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 32 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board (1952), Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1926)
94 federal appellate · 32 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 26 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 United States v. Fisher · United States v. Hooe Et Al. · Thelusson v. Smith · United States v. Howland
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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of priority of payment of debts due to the government, is. a prerogative of the crown well known to the common law * * * The claim of the United States, however, does not stand upon any sovereign prerogative, but is exclusively founded upon the actual provisions of their oum statutes.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not unimportant to state, that the construction which we have given to the terms of the act, is that which is understood to have been practically acted upon by the government, as well as by individuals, ever since its enactment. Many estates, as well of deceased persons, as of persons insolvent who have made general assignments, have been settled upon the footing of its correctness. A practice so long and so general, would, of itself, furnish strong grounds for a liberal construction; and could not now be disturbed without introducing a train of serious mischiefs. We think the practice was founded in the true exposition of the terms and intent of the act: but if it were susceptible of some doubt, so long an acquiescence in it would justify us in yielding to it as a safe and reasonable exposition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied.”
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.