Stephens v. Overstolz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An act of Congress imposing a legal liability on the directors of a national bank for certain things which they may do, which shall result in. an injury to the bank, its stockholders, or creditors, and making them liable for the amount of the damage, is a remedial and not a penal statute, and therefore an action under it survives against the estate of a director. Where a bank director makes a wrongful loan of money, from which loss occurs, it is no defense to an action by the receiver of the bank against the director’s estate that the insolvency of the person to whom the loan was made was not discovered’ until after the death of the director and the appointment of the receiver.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Curtis v. Phelps

2. ““The statute declares the mode of proceeding, the liability of the wrong-doer, and the limit of his responsibility.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hughes v. Reed