Merchants' Bank of New Haven v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Huntington v. Attrill (1892), Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of Atlanta (1906)
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture when the action is given to the party aggrieved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“be made, and in the other, while they shall respectively continue in ■office”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.