Waite v. Dowley’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 527 · 1876
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Barnett Bank of Marion County, N. A. v. Nelson (1996), Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett (1944)
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Gilman v. Philadelphia · National Bank v. Commonwealth · Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Dearing · Houston v. Moore · The People of New York on the Relation of the Bank of Commerce v. The Commissioners of Taxes for the City and County of New York
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The act of congress, however, was merely designed to furnish to the public dealing with the bank a knowledge of the names of its corporators, and to what extent they might be relied on as giving safety to dealing with the bank. It had no such purpose as the Vermont statute, and was wholly deficient' in the information needed for the purposes of taxation by the state, as conceded to it by the act of congress itself. Some legislation of Vermont was, therefore, necessary to the proper exercise of the rightful powers of the state, and so far as it required this list, was not in conflict with any provision of the act of congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. McGraw“[W]here there exists a concurrent right of legislation in the States and in Congress, and the latter has exercised its power, there remains in the States no authority to legislate on the same matter”
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.