Orleans v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 676 · 1878
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1951 · most notably Vicksburg v. Putnam (1886), Board of Com'rs of Gunnison County Colo v. E H Rollins Sons (1899)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 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 · Murray v. Lardner · Board of Commissioners v. Aspinwall · County of Warren v. Marcy · San Antonio v. Mehaffy
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bonds in question have all the properties of commercial paper, and in the view of the law they belong to that category. Murray v. Lardner, 2 Wall. 110 . 17 L. Ed. 857 . This court has uniformly hold, when the question has been presented, that, where a corporation has lawful power to- issue such securities, and does so, the bona, fide holder has the right to presume the power was properly exercised, and is not bound to look beyond the question of its existence. Where the bonds on their face recite the circumstances which bring (hem within the power, the corporation is estopped to deny the truth of the lroifal. Mercer Co. v. Hackett, 1 Wall. 83 , 17 L. Ed. 548 ; San Antonio v. Mehaffy, 96 U. S. 312 , 24 L. Ed. 816 ; Moultrie Co. v. Rockingham Ten Cent Sav. Bank, 92 U. S. 631 , 28 L. Ed. 631 ; Moran v. Commissioners, 2 Black, 722 , 17 L. Ed. 342 ; Commissioners v. Aspinwall, 21 How. 539 , 16 L. Ed. 208 ; Bank v. Turquand, 6 El. & Bl. 827.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case a preliminary injunction might and should have been procured forbidding the commissioners to issue the bonds, and the railroad company, if it received them, from parting with them until the case made by the certiorari, was finally brought to a close. This would have involved only an ordinary exercise of equity jurisdiction” (citing authorities.)”
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.