Warner v. Penoyer’s Empirical Analysis
91 F. 587 · 1898
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Relies on Briggs v. Spaulding · Merchants' Bank v. State Bank · Garnett · Knox v. Eden Musee Americain Co. · Scott v. Depeyster
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They are not to be deemed remiss because they did not resort to exceptional methods, or because they relied on the cashier’s supervision over the books and accounts, or because they reposed confidence in his reports of the amount and other clerical details of the assets and liabilities. They were under no duty to observe the extraordinary vigilance short of which a bank cannot be protected from the crimes conceived by a dishonest cashier.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The directors of a national banking association are authorized to appoint a cashier, and delegate to him all the usual powers of such an office, including the discounting of notes. Rev. St. U.S. 5136. To him is properly confided the custody of its property, money, securities, and valuable paper, and the supervision of its books and accounts. He is the executive officer, who transacts its daily affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.