Smiley v. Citibank (South Dakota), N. A.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
388 federal appellate · 123 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,091 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr (1996)
388 federal appellate · 123 district · 127 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co.
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Mead Corp. · National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. v. Brand X Internet Services · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital
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 1,091 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he whole point of Chevron is to leave the discretion provided by the ambiguities of a statute with the implementing agency.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that Congress, when it left ambiguity in a statute”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The term “interest” as used in 12 U.S.C. 85 includes any payment compensating a creditor or prospective creditor for an extension of credit, making available of a line of credit, or any default or breach by a borrower of a condition upon which credit was extended. It includes, among other things, the following fees connected with credit extension or availability: numerical periodic rates, late fees, creditor-imposed not sufficient funds (NSF) fees charged when a borrower tenders payment on a debt with a check drawn on insufficient funds, over-limit fees, annual fees, cash advance fees, and membership fees. It does not ordinarily include appraisal fees, premiums and commissions attributable to insurance guaranteeing repayment of any extension of credit, finders’ fees, fees for document preparation or notarization, or fees incurred to obtain credit reports.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.