Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Philadelphia Gear Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 53 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 305 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams (2002)
96 federal appellate · 53 district · 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPhiladelphia Gear Corp v. Federal Deposit Insurance (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1813 · 12 U.S.C. § 1817 · 12 U.S.C. § 1821
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Watt v. Alaska
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 305 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the statute giving rise to the longstanding interpretation has been reenacted without pertinent change, the 'congressional failure to revise or repeal the agency's interpretation is persuasive evidence that the interpretation is the one intended by Congress.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in relevant part as: 13 the unpaid balance of money or its equivalent received or held by a bank in the usual course of business and for which it has given or is obligated to give credit, either conditionally or unconditionally, to a commercial, checking, savings, time, or thrift account.... 14 The directors argue that the sums recorded in their memorandum accounts were”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in that case was a note, unconditional on its face, but subject to an understanding that the account party would pay the bank only what the bank paid the beneficiary on the letter of credit. The Supreme Court construed deposits in accord with the purpose of the statute, to protect hard dollars entrusted to banks: 70 Congress' focus in providing for a system of deposit insurance--a system that has been continued to the present without modification to the basic definition of deposits that are”
3 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.