Smith v. Witherow’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 638 · 1939
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1986
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 12 U.S.C. § 191 (National Bank Receivership Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Conservation Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 205 (Bank Conservation Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 206 (Bank Conservation Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 21 · 12 U.S.C. § 95 · 12 U.S.C. § 95A
Relies on Kennedy v. Gibson · Davis v. Elmira Savings Bank · Pufahl v. Parks' Estate · Adams v. Nagle · Bushnell v. Leland
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The original subscriber and all vendees of his shares, upon assuming the status of a stockholder, assume it subject to the conditions and burdens imposed by the statute as incident to the holding of national bank shares. Pufahl v. Estate of Parks, 299 U.S. 217 , 57 S.Ct. 151, 81 L. Ed. 133. * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“5 The National Bank Act and the Bank Conservation Act do not define insolvency. Neither do the regulations of the Comptroller. However insolvency within the meaning of the National Bank Act encompasses both the inability of a bank to meet its obligations as they mature and the closing of its doors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Its status is [not] determined * * * by the theoretical state of its balance sheet which may include assets whose actual value is far less than that at which they are carried on its books.”
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.