The Commercial and Rail Road Bank of Vicksburg v. Slocomb Richards and Company’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 60 · 1840
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Ex Parte Shaw (1892), Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. (1932)
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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 Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Bank of the United States v. Deveaux · William Mason v. Blaireau
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a corporation cannot appear but by attorney. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 20 F. Supp. 369 - Brandstein v. White Lamps, Inc. · Strong Delivery Ministry Association, an Illinois Corporation v. Board of Appeals of Cook County and Mr. George Dunne, President of Cook County Board of Commissioners, Sears, Sucsy & Co., a Delaware Corporation v. Insurance Company of North America, Third-Party v. Westcott Trainor, Third-Party
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.