Federal Land Bank of Wichita v. Board of County Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson (1962), Bailey v. Patterson (1961)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 641 · 12 U.S.C. § 781 · 12 U.S.C. § 901 · 12 U.S.C. § 931 · 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Federal Government performs no 'proprietary' functions. If the enabling Act is constitutional and if the instrumentality's activity is within the authority granted by the Act, a governmental function is being performed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Holding mineral rights for more than 5 years. In cases where, in connection with a sale of bank-owned real estate, the bank has retained royalty or other rights in or to minerals, and desires to hold such rights for a period in excess of 5 years, it is not considered that the bank has both “title and possession” of real estate within the meaning of section 13 Fourth (b) of the Federal Farm Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 781 Fourth (b) (12 U.S.C.A. s. 781 Fourth (b))). However, retention of such minerals and mineral rights for periods in excess of 5 years, when in the bank’s opinion it is in the bank’s interest to do so, has the approval of the Administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The word `license,' means permission, or authority; and a license to do any particular thing, is a permission or authority to do that thing; and if granted by a person having power to grant it, transfers to the grantee the right to do whatever it purports to authorize.'”
1 later decision 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.