Bank of United States v. Waggener’s Empirical Analysis
34 U.S. 378 · 1835
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1990 · most notably The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens (1829), Hotel Company v. Wade (1877)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Fleckner v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the contract on its face is for legal interest only, then dt must be proved that there was some corrupt agreement, or device or shift, to cover usury, and that it was in the full contemplation of the parties.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If it be the real intention of the parties to receive or reserve a given rate of interest, and that rate turns out to be usurious, the transaction will be re garded as usury, whether the parties knew the interest to be usurious or not. * * No error of the parties, as to the effect of the transaction under the law, can give validity to a contract made in violation of the law.” Tyler on Usury, p. 104.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Teshner v. Roome
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.