Hawley v. Uption’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 314 · 1880
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Fogg v. Blair (1891), Potts v. Wallace (1892)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No.-. The Great Western Insurance Company. $200. [Stamp.] Capital Stock, $500,000, with Liberty to Increase to $5,000,000. Stock Non-assessable. Organized July 20, 1857, under Act of Legislature Approved March 4, 1857. “Know all men by these presents, that for and in consideration of ten shares of the capital stock of the Great Western Insurance Company of Chicago, 111., received by me, I am held and firmly hound and agree to pay the Great Western Insurance Company of Chicago the sum of two hundred dollars in installments, as follows: Twenty-five per cent, thereof upon receipt of stock certificate, twenty-five per cent, in three months from date hereof, twenty-five per cent, six months from date hereof, twenty-five per cent, nine months from date, with interest ten per cent, after due. “Chicago, 7th Jan’y, 1871. Theo. Hawley. [Seal.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it cannot be doubted that one who has become bound as a subscriber to the capital stock of a corporation must pay his subscription if required to-meet the obligations of the corporation. A certificate in his favor for the stock is not necessary to make him a subscriber. All that need be done, so far as creditors are concerned, is that the subscriber shall have bound himself to become a contributor to the fund which the capital stock represents. If such an obligation exists, the courts can enforce the contribution when required. After having bound himself to contribute, he cannot be discharged from the obligation he has assumed until the contribution has actually been made, or the obligation in some lawful way extinguished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Potts v. Wallace
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.