Lewis v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 559 · 1934
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 20 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett (1944), First National Bank of Logan Utah v. Walker Bank and Trust Company First Security Bank of Utah Na (1966)
85 federal appellate · 20 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Howard (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. Armstrong · Frank Thompson v. Henry Fairbanks · Cox v. Hart · Davis v. Elmira Savings Bank · Ewell v. Daggs
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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The ultimate decision of this question is for the Supreme Court of Georgia but until it decides otherwise we see no reason for not accepting the hold- ■ ing of the court below [Federal Court] as correct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] national bank is subject to state law unless that law interferes with the purposes of its creation, or destroys its efficiency, or is in conflict with some paramount federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statute is not retroactive merely because it draws upon antecedent facts for its operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.