Bond v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1985
3 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 Battelle v. Northwestern Cement & Concrete Pavement Co. · McArthur v. Times Printing Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled law of this state that a corporation is not bound by engagements on its behalf made by its- promoters before its organization, but it may make them its contracts by adopting them. This it may do precisely as it may make similar original contracts; and if a similar contract might be made by the corporation without any formal act of its board of directors, the adoption of the contract of its promoters may be shown either by the express act of its board of directors, or it may be inferred from acts or acquiescence of the corporation or of its authorized agents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Veigel v. O'Toole
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.