Peoples Bank v. Eccles’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 636 · 1947
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996 · most notably Eccles v. Peoples Bank of Lakewood Village (1948), Functional Music, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1958)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 264 · 12 U.S.C. § 321 (§ 9 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) · 12 U.S.C. § 327 (§ 9 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913)
Relies on Manhattan General Equipment Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Miller v. United States · United Fuel Gas Co. v. Railroad Commission · International Ry Co v. Davidson · Wall v. Parrot Silver & Copper Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No administrative body has authority to contract with a regulated corporation in a manner contrary to the statute which is being administered, nor in any way which does not give effect to the intent of Congress.” Peoples Bank v. Eccles, 82 U.S.App.D.C. 126 , 161 F.2d 636 , 644 (1947), rev’d on other grounds, 333 U.S. 426 , 68 S.Ct. 641 , 92 L.Ed. 784 (1948).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.