Bank of Pittsburgh v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
63 U.S. 96 · 1859
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1972 · most notably Hobbs v. McLean (1886), Railroad Company v. National Bank (1880)
6 federal appellate · 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 Samuel Fowler v. Harris Brantly · Wells v. Whitehead · Downes & Co. v. Church
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Business men who place their signatures to blanks, suitable for negotiable bills of exchange or promissory notes, and intrust them to their correspondents, to raise money at their discretion, ought to understand the operation and effect of this rule, and not to expect that courts of justice will fail in such cases to give it due application.”
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.