Stephens v. Overstolz’s Empirical Analysis
43 F. 771 · 1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1934
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Hornor v. Henning · Culver v. Third National Bank · Stone v. Chisolm · Matthews v. Albert · Perry v. Turner
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the hearing upon the demurrer we expressed the opinion, and further consideration of the subject has strengthened the conviction, that the right to recover, under section 5239, of a bank director, the damages sustained in consequence of an excessive loan under section 5200, is in no wise affected by the fact that the comptroller has or has not procured a forfeiture of the charter. According to our view of section 5239, two results, in no respect dependent upon each other, may follow the making of an excessive loan; that is to say, the comptroller may, if he thinks proper, proceed to have the charter revoked, alleging the excessive loan as a violation of law; but whether he does so or not, a director of the bank, who knowingly participates in or assents to the loan, may be compelled to make good whatever damages result to the bank from making the same. This seems to us to be the obvious meaning of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gerner v. Thompson
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.