Thweatt v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2013
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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. § 1811 (Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 1819 · 12 U.S.C. § 1821 · 12 U.S.C. § 1823 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982)
Relies on Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Freytag v. Commissioner · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) Notwithstanding any provision of any contract, the applicable statute of limitations with regard to any action brought by the [Federal Deposit Insurance] Corporation as conservator or receiver shall be (i) in the case of any contract claim, the longer of— (I) the 6-year period beginning on the date the claim accrues; (II) the period applicable under State law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f assignees of the FDIC were not allowed to benefit from the six-year statute of limitations in [Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989], the FDIC would be forced to prosecute all notes for which the state statute of limitations had run, because such claims would be worthless to anyone else. Such a result would be contrary to the policy of ridding the federal system of failed bank assets. 6”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Subject to the provisions of section 2416 of this title, and except as otherwise provided by Congress, every action for money damages brought by the United States or an officer or agency thereof which is founded upon any contract express or implied in law or fact, shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within six years after the right of action accrues ...”
2 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.