Hopkins Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Cleary’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 315 · 1935
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. (1957), Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Massachusetts v. Mellon · Simpson v. Shepard · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Northern Securities Company v. United States · In re Debs
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the creation of corporations of this quasi-public order and in keeping them thereafter within the limits of their charters, the state is parens patriae, acting in a spirit of benevolence for the welfare of its citizens. Shareholders and creditors have assumed a relation to the business in the belief that the assets will be protected by all the power of the government against use for other ends than those stated in the charter. Aside from the direct interest of the state in the preservation of agencies established for the common good, there is thus the duty of the parens patriae to keep faith with those who have put their trust in the parental power.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any member of a Federal Home Loan Bank may convert itself into a Federal savings and loan association under this chapter upon a vote of 51 per centum or more of the votes cast at a legal meeting called to consider such action; but such conversion shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Board may prescribe, and thereafter the converted association shall be entitled to all the benefits of this section and shall be subject to examination and regulation to the same extent as other associations incorporated pursuant to this chapter. 7”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““For the purposes of these cases, we find it needless to consider whether Congress has. the power to create building and loan associations and thereupon to invest them with corporate capacity. * * * ” “Confining ourselves now to the precise and narrow question presented * * *, we hold that the conversion of petitioners from state into federal associations is of no effect when voted against the protest of Wisconsin. Beyond that we do not go. No question is here as to the scope of ths war power or of the power of eminent domain or of the power to regulate transactions affecting interstate or foreign commerce.””
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.