banks
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 70 U.S. 495 - Bank for Savings v. Collector · 1865Most cited · 46 citing opinions
Banks, in the commercial sense, are of three kinds, to wit: 1, of deposit; 2, of discount; 3, of circulation. All or any two of these functions may, and frequently are, exercised by the same association; but there are still banks of deposit, without authority to make discounts or issue a circulating medium.
How often courts cite the case defining “banks”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “banks” — 46 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.