Battey v. Eureka Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1939
4 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 National Bank v. Matthews · Logan County Nat Bank v. Townsend · National Bank v. Whitney · Gold-Mining Company v. National Bank · Bank v. Lanier
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . but no transfer of stock shall be valid against a bank so long as the registered holder thereof shall be liable as principal debtor, surety or otherwise to the bank for any debt which shall be due and unpaid.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If an indebted stockholder were to transfer his stock free from any lien or claim of the bank, it might result in an impairment of the capital, and so, to protect the capital and customers of the bank, the legislature created a lien and placed a limitation in the statute which prevents the stockholder from transferring his stock even to a bona fide purchaser while his liability to the bank continues.” (p. 388.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hess v. Emery
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.