1 E.H. Smith 241 - Sage v. . Culver’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably Domestic Block Coal Co. v. DeArmey (1913), Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. New York & Northern Railway Co. (1896)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 113 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
Relies on Hawes v. Oakland · Leslie v. . Lorillard · Cowee v. . Cornell · Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick · Zabriskie v. . Smith
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ They [the plaintiffs] bring this action as such stockholders against the defendants as directors, and ask the court to adjudge that the defendants account to them or to the corporation concerning certain transactions in regard to the management of the affairs of the corporation which are stated in the complaint. It is the sufficiency of these allegations as the basis of an action that is challenged by the demurrer. The complaint contains proper allegations to warrant the plaintiffs, as stockholders, in bringing the action, instead of the corporation itself, and there is no difficulty on that, ground, if the allegations are otherwise sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the corporation is exclusively under the control of the trustees and officers whose acts and management are questioned, a demand that the corporation bring the action would be idle and fruitless, aud in such cases equity permits the stockholder to bring the action in his own name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kent v. Honsinger
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.