Kimbrough v. Davies’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1968
2 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The capital stock of a corporation is a fund set apart, among other purposes, for that of paying the debts of the corporation; and whether or not it be a trust fund, impressed with all of the attributes of such a fund, it seems to be universally held, upon sound and plain principles of common honesty, that it cannot be withdrawn by the stockholders until all of the debts then owing by the corporation have been paid. ’ ’”
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.