Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Bismarck Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 95 · 1941
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 45 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 518 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007), United States v. Allegheny County Pa (1944)
168 federal appellate · 45 district · 125 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 Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. · Graves v. People of State of New York O'Keefe · Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp.
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 518 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the term 'including' is not one of all-embracing definition, but connotes simply an illustrative application of the general principle.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he federal government is one of delegated powers, and from that it necessarily follows that any constitutional exercise of its delegated powers is governmental.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'instrumentalities, engaged in the performance of an important governmental function,' " 314 U.S. at 102, 62 S.Ct. at 5 (quoting Federal Land Bank v. Priddy, 295 U.S. 229 , 231, 55 S.Ct. 705, 706, 79 L.Ed. 1408 (1935)), because "[t]hrough the land banks the federal government makes possible the extension of credit on liberal terms to farm borrowers.”
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.