Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr’s Empirical Analysis
309 U.S. 242 · 1940
Citation profile
429 federal appellate · 213 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,354 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Sherwood (1941), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer (1994)
429 federal appellate · 213 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston · Federal Land Bank of St Louis v. Briddy
Cited together with Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp. · Loeffler v. Frank · Franchise Tax Board of California v. United States Postal Service · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer
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 1,354 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be delimited by implied exceptions, it must be clearly shown that certain types of suits are not consistent with the statutory or constitutional scheme, that an implied restriction of the general authority is necessary to avoid grave interference with the performance of a governmental function, or that for other reasons it was plainly the purpose of Congress to use the”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Secretary shall, in carrying out the provisions of [several subchapters of the National Housing Act], be authorized, in his official capacity, to sue and be sued in any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clause. That does not, of course, mean that any funds or property of the United States can be held responsible for this judgment. Claims against a corporation are normally collectible only from corporate assets. That is true here. Congress has specifically directed that all such claims against the Federal Housing Administration of the type here involved”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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