State v. McFetridge’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions

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

1. ““These deposits were made in the name of the treasurer, in his official capacity as such. No time of credit was given upon them, but they were payable whenever required by the treasurer, and they could only be drawn on the official draft or check of the treasurer. They were made in accordance with the usual and long-continued course of business in that department of the state government. . . . Under these circumstances it is reasonable to hold that the state treasurers were justified in transacting the business of their department as they did transact it, and as such business is almost invariably conducted in the commercial world, unless those methods were prohibited by some statute of the state.” (The State v. McFetridge and others, 84 Wis. 473, 507, 508 , 54 N. W. 1 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. Yates Center National Bank

2. ““For reasons hereinafter stated it is unnecessary to determine whether, if the treasurer illegally made such deposits, he fulfilled his obligations to the state when he paid over the funds thus deposited as required by law. It may be observed, however, that, whatever the rights of the sureties are in such case, to allow the treasurer to escape accounting to the state for gains accruing from his illegal use of the public funds looks very much like allowing a public officer to profit by his own wrong and breach of official duty. Courts should be slow to assert the right of a delinquent official to- such gains, unless compelled to do so by plain rules of law. ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Milwaukee v. Drew

3. ““Deposit is where a sum of money is left with a banker for safe-keeping, subject to order, and payable, not in the specific money deposited, but in. an equal sum. It may or may not bear interest, according to the agreement. While the relation between the depositor and his banker is that of debtor and creditor simply, the transaction cannot, in any proper sense, be regarded as a loan unless the money is left not for safe-keeping, but for a fixed period, at interest, in which case the transaction assumes the characteristics of a loan.” Citing State v. McFetridge, 84 Wis. 473 , 54 N. W. 1, 11, 998 , 20 L. R. A. 223.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Guardianship of Fahlin