Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 233 · 1944
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 60 district · 336 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 786 later decisions (67 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. (1950), Link v. Wabash Railroad (1962)
125 federal appellate · 60 district · 336 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Phillips v. Commissioner · Phillips v. Commissioner · Davidson v. New Orleans
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 786 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fundamental requirement of due process is an opportunity to be heard upon such notice and proceedings as are adequate to safeguard the right for which the constitutional protection is invoked.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“national banks are subject to state laws, unless those laws infringe the national banking laws or impose an undue burden on the performance of the banks' functions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the bank is a debtor to its depositors, it can interpose no due process or contract clause objection to payment of the claimed deposits to the state, if the state is lawfully entitled to demand payment, for in that case payment of the debt to the state, under the statute, relieves the bank of its liability to the depositors.”
4 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.