Crall & Ostrander v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2011
3 federal appellate · 15 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 City of South Bend v. Martin · Hays v. Commonwealth · Lanman v. McGregor · Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Erwin · Standard Oil Co. v. Commonwealth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a corporation can act only through its officers and agents, and where the business itself involves a violation of the law, the correct rule is that all who participate in it are liable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny peddler who shall peddle for sale, or sell or barter, without a license, shall pay a fine....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would in many instances afford immunity to the chief offenders, the officers of the corporation, without whose assistance it would be impossible for the corporation to engage in the prohibited business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.