Samuel Fowler v. Harris Brantly’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 318 · 1840
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1939 · most notably Timothy Goodman v. John Simonds (1857), Swift v. Smith (1880)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The known customs of the bank, and its ordinary modes of transacting business, including the prescribed forms of notes offered for discount, were matters of proof, and entered into the contract; and the parties to it must be understood as having governed themselves by such customs and modes of doing business; and this whether they had actual knowledge of them, or not. * * *”
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.