The Bank of the United States v. Elizabeth Lee’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 107 · 1839
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1960 · most notably Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co. (1897), Morgan v. Railroad Co. (1877)
13 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if the true owner stands by, and does not make his title known, he will be bound to make good the contract; on the principle that he who holds his peace when he ought to have spoken, shall not be heard, now that he should be silent.”
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.