Griffith v. Tierney’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1961
8 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.
Relationships
Relies on Vermont Farm MacH. Co. v. Ash · White v. Mayo · Hanson v. Hanson · Wilson v. Robinson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The receiver of an insolvent state bank occupies no better position than the bank itself, and takes its assets subject to all equities which existed at .the time of his appointment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Melaven v. Hunker
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.