banking institution
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 337 U.S. 472 - Propper v. Clark · 1949Most cited · 815 citing opinions
The term 'banking institution' shall include any person engaged primarily or incidentally in the business of banking, of granting or transferring credits, or of purchasing or selling foreign exchange or procuring purchasers and sellers thereof, as principal or agent, or any person holding credits for others as a direct or incidental part of his business, or brokers; and each principal, agent, home office, branch or correspondent of any person so engaged shall be regarded as a separate 'banking institution.
How often courts cite the case defining “banking institution”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “banking institution” — 815 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.