First National Bank of Washington v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 343 · 1876
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1998 · most notably Burton v. United States (1905), Fourth Street Bank v. Yardley (1897)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Merchants' Bank v. State Bank · Bank of the Republic v. Millard · &198tna National Bank v. . Fourth National Bank · First Nat. Bank of Jersey City v. . Leach
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It, is not to be doubted, however, that it is within the power of the bank to render itself liable to the holder and payee of the check. This it may do by a formal acceptance written upon the check, in which case it stands to the holder in tho position of a drawer and acceptor of a bill of exchange”— citing Merchants Bank v. State Bank, 10 Wall. 604 , 19 L. Ed. 1008 , and Espy v. Bank of Cincinnati, 18 Wall. 604 , 21 L. Ed. 947 .”
10 later decisions 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.