Mermis v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 579 · 1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1986
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 90
Relies on Lewis v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. · Branch v. United States · Coudert v. United States · Lamport v. National Department Stores, Inc. · Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to find any statutory definition of public moneys prior to the act last above referred to. “It must follow from these decisions and the statutory definition which follows them that all funds which come into the hands of a public officer in Kansas by virtue of his office, whether they be held for the benefit of a private person, or belong to the state or some political subdivision thereof, are public funds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leslie v. Johnson
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.