United States v. State Bank’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 30 · 1877
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008 · most notably Bull v. United States (1935), United States v. Dalm (1990)
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 15 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 · Gibbons v. United States · United States v. The Bank of the Metropolis · May v. Le Claire
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action will lie whenever the defendant has received money which is the property of the plaintiff, and which the defendant is obliged by natural justice and equity to refund. The form of the indebtedness or the mode in which it was incurred is immaterial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But surely it ought to require neither argument nor authority to support the proposition, that, where the money or property of an innocent person has gone into the coffers of the nation by means of a fraud to which its agent was a party, such money or property cannot be held by the United States against the claim of the wronged and injured party.”
2 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.