Bank of United States v. Ritchie’s Empirical Analysis
33 U.S. 128 · 1834
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Arrowsmith v. Gleason (1889), Kingsbury v. Buckner (1890)
23 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Monell v. Lawrence · Bernard v. Bougard
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not error, but it is calculated to awaken attention that, in this case, though the infants, as the record shows, had parents living; a person not appearing from his name, or shown on the record to be connected with them, was appointed their guardian ad litem. 21”
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.