Thompson v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
72 U.S. 663 · 1866
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1942 · most notably Ex parte United States (1916), Burton v. United States (1905)
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 United States v. Hooe
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the deposit is general, and there is no special agreement proved, the title of the money deposited, whatever it may be, passes to the bank * * * and the bank becomes liable for the amount as a debt, which can only be discharged by such money as is'by law a legal tender.””
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.