Huntington v. Savings Bank’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 388 · 1877
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably Clark v. Barnard (1883), Seven Islands Land Co. v. Maine Land Use Regulation Commission (1982)
8 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Hightower v. Thornton
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A corporation created by statute can exercise, no powers, and has no rights except such as are expressly given or necessarily implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Barnard
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.