Barbour v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 510 · 1936
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1954 · most notably Anderson v. Abbott (1944), Adams v. Nagle (1938)
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 191 (National Bank Receivership Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 192 · 12 U.S.C. § 62 · 12 U.S.C. § 63
Relies on Richmond v. Irons · Kennedy v. Gibson · Casey v. Galli · National Bank v. Case · Forrest v. Jack
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have proceeded upon tlje assumption that appellants were stockholders of the bank. They insist that they were not, that they had exchanged their certificates for those of the holding company, the stockholder of record. Ninety-one and three-tenths per cent, of appellants were signers of the ‘Agreement and Power,’ and owners of their holding company stock by original exchange, one-half of one per cent, obtained their stock in exchange, for the stock of others as subsequently acquired institutions. The remainder obtained their certificates in other ways. But the statute ( 12 U.S.C.A. § 64 ), does not restrict liability for assessments to stockholders of record or to those holding certificates. Congress wisely declined to limit the term ‘stockholders.’ It recognized that, bank stock is capable of ownership without any certificate therefor having been either issued, recorded, or delivered; and, further, that stock might be owned by one person and. the certificate registered in the name of another. * * * It has been uniformly and wisely held that the actual owners of the capital of a national bank, that is, those who have their money invested therein, are ‘shareholders’ and liable to assessment. * * * The law fixes the obligation upon those who profit from the confidence of the depositors and from the use of their money. “We concur in the finding that appellants are ‘actual owners’ of the stock of the bank upon which the assessment was levied. The stockholders never sold their ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Atkinson
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.