Atherton v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.2d 883 · 1938
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Anderson v. Abbott (1944), Joy v. North (1982)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
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 11 U.S.C. § 103 · 12 U.S.C. § 21 · 12 U.S.C. § 83 · 12 U.S.C. § 84 · 12 U.S.C. § 93
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Wood v. Carpenter · Briggs v. Spaulding · Corsicana Nat Bank of Corsicana v. Johnson · Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Dearing
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he directors are required ... to use ordinary diligence; and by ordinary diligence is meant, that degree of care demanded by the circumstances____ They must keep in mind that a national bank is not a private corporation in which stockholders alone are interested____ [0]ne of its principal purposes among others is to hold and safekeep the money of its depositors.””
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.