Sparks v. Dispatch Transfer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Stotler ex rel. Stotler v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co. (1906), Jones v. Williams (1897)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Martin v. Webb · Falk v. Moebs · Mining Company v. Anglo-Californian Bank · Pentz v. Stanton · Bartlett v. Tucker
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The president of a business corporation is its chief executive officer. He may, without any special authority from the board of directors, perform all acts of an ordinary nature, which by usage or necessity are incident to his office, and may bind the corporation by contracts in matters arising'in the usual course of business.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.