Huntington v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 482 · 1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1961
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Dodge v. Woolsey · Murphy v. United States
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.
““There is not, as in Dodge v. Woolsey ( 18 How. 331 [ 15 L.Ed. 401 ]), any averment that these taxes are so burdensome as to be destructive of the corporation itself; nor that there was any fraud on the part of the directors, nor anything to show that their decision not to resist the taxes, is unwise, or opposed to the best judgment they could exercise in the matter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no averment of any effort to invoke the control of the body of the stockholders, or any reason why it was not done. Nor is it made to appear that a single stockholder was' consulted by the complainant, or has any wish to contest the payment of these taxes with the state authorities.’’”
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.