Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
983 federal appellate · 1,351 district · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,772 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. (1995)
983 federal appellate · 1,351 district · 134 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedMeyer v. Fidelity Savings (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1819 · 12 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2677 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Sherwood · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · United States v. Mitchell
Cited together with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Carlson v. Green · United States v. Nordic Village, Inc.
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 4,772 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a waiver, sovereign immunity shields the Federal Government and its agencies from suit.”
158 later decisions quote this exact passage“for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the source of substantive law upon which the claimant relies provides an avenue for relief.”
11 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.