Womble v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1464 (Consumer Home Mortgage Assistance Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. Mazurie · Landy v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Shlensky v. Dorsey · Federal Deposit Insurance v. American Bank Trust Shares, Inc. · First Sayings & Loan Ass'n v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because they failed to demonstrate under Rule 23.1 [Fed.R.Civ.P.] that the FSLIC refused to assert a right it properly could have asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bauer“A derivative action is not precluded simply because a bank, or a savings and loan association, is placed in receivership....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bauer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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