United States v. Abel Turner’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 132 · 1833
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1973 · most notably Prussian v. United States (1931), Milton v. United States (1940)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It could not be presumed that persons in general would be cognizant of the fact who, at particular periods, were the president and cashier of the bank. They were officers liable to be removed at the pleasure of the directors, and the times of their appointment or removal, or even their names, could not ordinarily be within the knowledge of the body of the citizens. The public mischief would be equally great, whether the names were those of the genuine officers, or of fictitious or unauthorized persons; and ordinary diligence could not protect them against imposition. * * * Nor is it any answer to the charge of forgery that the instrument is not available, by reason of some collateral objection not appearing upon the face of it.””
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.