Deitrick v. Greaney’s Empirical Analysis
309 U.S. 190 · 1940
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 50 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 527 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942)
166 federal appellate · 50 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedGreaney v. Deitrick (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 161 · 12 U.S.C. § 192 · 12 U.S.C. § 481 · 12 U.S.C. § 51 · 12 U.S.C. § 53 · 12 U.S.C. § 55 · 12 U.S.C. § 56 · 12 U.S.C. § 83
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Cook Co Nat Bank v. United States · Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff
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 527 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obvious purpose of prohibiting the purchase by a bank of its own stock is to prevent the impairment of its capital resources and the consequent injury to its creditors in the event of insolvency.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a federal statute condemns an act as unlawful, the extent and nature of the legal consequences of the condemnation, though left by the statute to judicial determination, are nevertheless federal questions, the answers to which are to be derived from the statute and the federal policy which it has adopted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burks v. Lasker · Chumney v. Nixon“appoint examiners who shall examine every national bank as often as the Comptroller of the Currency shall deem necessary. The examiner making the examination of any national bank shall have power to make á thorough examination of all the affairs of the bank and in doing so he shall have power to administer oaths and to examine any of the officers and agents thereof under oath and shall make a full and detailed report of the condition of said bank to the Comptroller of the Currency. ...” 12 U.S.C. § 481 .”
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.