The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Henry K William’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 31 · 1848
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), United States v. Mayer (1914)
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Mullen v. Torrance · Turner v. Bank of North America · Bronson v. Kinzie · Capron v. Van Noorden · McCormick v. Sullivant
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to correct any mere clerical error, so as to conform the record to the truth, always remains.”
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.