National Bank v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 353 · 1869
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 7 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 370 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian (1936), Eisner v. Macomber (1920)
38 federal appellate · 7 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 37 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.
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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 370 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[National Banks] are subject to the laws of the State, and are governed in their daily course of business far more by the laws of the State than of the nation. All their contracts are governed and construed by state laws. Their acquisition and transfer of property, their right to collect their debts, and their liability to be sued for debts, are all based on State law.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interfere with, or impair [national banks'] efficiency in performing the functions by which they are designed to serve [the Federal] Government”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of the State.”
2 later decisions 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.