James Adams v. Philip Otterback’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 539 · 1853
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1970
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Mills the President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · The President and Directors of the Bank of Washington v. Philip Triplett · Jones v. Fales · President, Directors, & Co. v. Page
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, to constitute a usage, it must apply to a place, rather than to a particular bank. It must be the rule of all the banks of the place, or it cannot, consistently, be called a usage.” Adams v. Otterback, 15 How. 538 , 545 ( 14 L. Ed. 805 ).”
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.