Seale v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Hoehn v. Crews (1944), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Wheat (1992)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The directors of a banking- corporation are personally liable at the suit of an individual depositor for damages sustained by reason of the insolvency of the corporation, when the depositor is induced to place money in the hands of the corporation solely by representations of solvency made to the general public by the directors, who ought to have known, and by the use of ordinary care such as it was-their duty to have exercised might have known, that such representations were false.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.