D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 447 · 1942
Citation profile
1,217 federal appellate · 528 district · 698 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,097 later decisions (71 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945), Richards v. United States (1962)
1,217 federal appellate · 528 district · 698 state decisions — followed in 37 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
reviewedD'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Ins. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen
Cited together with Langley v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 4,097 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test is whether the note was designed to deceive the creditors or the public authority, or would tend to have that effect. It would be sufficient in this type of case that the maker lent himself to a scheme or arrangement whereby the banking authority on which respondent relied in insuring the bank was or was likely to be misled.”
98 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Were we bereft of the common law, our federal system would be impotent. This follows from the recognized futility of attempting all-complete statutory codes, and is apparent from the terms of the Constitution itself.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal policy to protect [the FDIC], and the public funds which it administers, against misrepresentations as to the securities or other assets in the portfolios of the banks which [the FDIC] insures or to which it makes loans.”
51 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.