Fidelity Financial Corp. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1432 · 1986
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably DCD Programs, Ltd. v. Leighton (1987), Allen v. City of Beverly Hills (1990)
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1426 · 12 U.S.C. § 1427 · 12 U.S.C. § 1429 · 12 U.S.C. § 1437 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Olim v. Wakinekona · Blum v. Yaretsky · Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We may affirm the district court on a ground not selected by the district judge so long as the record fairly supports such an alternative disposition of the issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is the correct one, we conclude that the shareholders of the Chicago Bank did not have an election here. Having examined the record and all relevant facts, we are persuaded that the local officials of the Chicago Bank have not abdicated their obligation under the statutory directive of section 1426(c) to exercise discretion. 64 The Chicago Bank is, at present, one of eleven regional banks that operate under the supervisory and regulatory authority of the Bank Board, an independent federal agency. The Chicago Bank was created by the Bank Board”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'there is a sufficiently close nexus between the [federal government] and the challenged action of the regulated entity so that the action of the latter may be fairly treated as that of the [federal government] itself.' [Citation omitted] The purpose of this requirement is to assure that constitutional standards are invoked only when it can be said that the [federal government] is responsible for the specific conduct of which the plaintiff complains.”
1 later decision 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.