First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 54 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Clarke v. Securities Industry Assn. (1987), Barnett Bank of Marion County, N. A. v. Nelson (1996)
187 federal appellate · 54 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedFred O. Dickinson, Jr., Comptroller of the State of Florida v. The First National Bank in Plant City, Plant City, Florida (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 21 · 12 U.S.C. § 36
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Gray v. Powell
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile Congress has absolute authority over national banks, the federal statute has incorporated by reference the limitations which state law places on branch banking activities by state banks. . . . State law has been utilized by Congress to provide certain guidelines to implement its legislative policy.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the definition may not be a model of precision in part due to its circular aspect, it defines the minimum content of the term “branch” by use of the word “include.” The definition suggests a calculated indefiniteness with respect to the outer limits of the term. However, the term “branch bank” at the very least includes any place for receiv ing deposits or paying checks or lending money apart from the chartered premises; it may include more.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We reject the contention made by amicus curiae National Association of Supervisors of State Banks to the effect that state law definitions of what constitutes ‘branch banking’ must control the content of the federal definition of § 36(f). Admittedly, state law comes into play in deciding how, where, and when branch banks may be operated, Walker Bank, supra, for in § 36(c) Congress entrusted to the States the regulation of branching as Congress then conceived it. But to allow the States to define the content of the term ‘branch’ would make them the sole judges of their own powers. Congress did not intend such an improbable result, as appears from the inclusion in § 36 of a general definition of ‘branch.’ ””
17 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.