Latimer v. Bard’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems to me clear that the action of the comptroller of the currency in certifying that the whole amount of the increase of stock had been paid in, with his approval of the increase, so partakes of the judicial character that it cannot be assailed in this proceeding. In reaching this conclusion it must be borne in mind that the particular matter which, by the answer, is relied upon as a defense is by the act of congress pointedly referred to the comptroller for his finding and certification. If, therefore, the finding of any executive officer of the government In any case is to be treated as conclusive (except as against direct attack), it seems to me his finding and certificate of this fact ought to be. The important and. divers business interests of a bank, and the welfare of its stockholders and creditors, demand, in my opinion, that a matter of fact so affecting each and all of these features as the stockholders’ relations to the bank and their liability to its creditors should be fixed clearly and definitely by some decisive authority; and this is what I think congress undertook to do in requiring the comptroller of the currency to find and certify to the fact in question, and, as a result thereof, to give his approval to the increase.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Columbia Nat. Bank of Tacoma v. Mathews