Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 81 · 1941
Citation profile
218 federal appellate · 44 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 508 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Loeffler v. Frank (1988), Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (1995)
218 federal appellate · 44 district · 43 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
reviewedReconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
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 508 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clause covering the Veterans Administration, 38 U.S.C. § 1820(a)(1), as it read at the time this suit was filed, provided: 6 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, with respect to matters arising by reason of this chapter, the Administrator may 7 (1) sue and be sued in the Administrator's official capacity in any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal . . . . 8 At first blush, this”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the natural and appropriate incidents of legal proceedings.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the unqualified authority to sue and be sued placed petitioner upon an equal footing with private parties as to the usual incidents of suits * * * ”.”
2 later decisions 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.