Lopez v. First Union National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 1186 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Lee v. Bankers Trust Co. (1999), Grossman v. Nationsbank Na (2000)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · United States v. Miller · United States v. Gonzales · Merritt v. Dillard Paper Co. · Woodfork v. Marine Cooks & Stewards Union
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Liability for disclosures.— (A) In general. — Any financial institution that makes a voluntary disclosure of any possible violation of law or regulation to a government agency or makes a disclosure pursuant to this subsection or any other authority, and any director, officer, employee, or agent of such institution who makes, or requires another to make any such disclosure, shall not be liable to any person under any law or regulation of the United States, any constitution, law, or regulation of any State or political subdivision of any State, or under any contract or other legally enforceable agreement (including any arbitration agreement), for such disclosure or for any failure to provide notice of such disclosure to the person who is the subject of such disclosure or any other person identified in the disclosure. (B) Rule of construction. — Subparagraph (A) shall not be construed as creating— (i) any inference that the term “person”, as used in such sub-paragraph, may be construed more broadly than its ordinary usage so as to include any government or agency of government; or (ii) any immunity against, or otherwise affecting, any civil or criminal action brought by any government or agency of government to enforce any constitution, law, or regulation of such government or agency.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a financial institution ha[s] a good faith suspicion that a law or regulation may have been violated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(i) A disclosure of any possible violation of law or regulation, (ii) A disclosure pursuant to § 5318(g) itself, or (iii) A disclosure pursuant to any other authority.””
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.