Jeffries v. Bacastow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The appointment by the bank commissioner of a receiver for an insolvent state bank, under the banking act of this state, is not a judicial act which must be performed by a court and not by an executive officer.” (Syl. ¶ 1.) “The fact of insolvency having been discovered, the statute directs the bank commissioner’s course, and the designation by him of a person to wind up the affairs of the bank is no more a judicial act than his order to the board of directors to remove a dishonest cashier. His powers are purely administrative and in no way infringe upon the ancient authority of courts to determine rights of person and property in specific controversies pending before them.” (p.498.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mercantile Warehouse Co. v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. Short v. Norman

2. ““Before insolvency the management of a bank is placed by law in the hands of a body of men created by statute, designated a board of directors, who act under the supervision and in many ■ respects under the control of the bank commissioner. After insolvency, and in certain other contingencies, this management is exercised by a single official chosen by the bank commissioner, who is called, for convenience and by analogy, a receiver.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bacastow v. Jeffries · Barret v. Skalsky