Patterson v. Lynde’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 519 · 1882
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1934 · most notably Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn (1887), Delano v. Butler (1886)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Sawyer v. Hoag
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitution of Oregon created no new right in this particular. It simply provided for the preservation of an old one. The liability under, this provision is not to the creditors, but for the indebtedness. That is no more than the liability created by the subscription. The subscription is part of the assets of the corporation, at least so far as creditors are concerned. The liability of the stockholder to the creditor is through the corporation, not direct. There is no privity of contract between them, and the creditor has not been given, either by the constitution or the statute, any new remedy for the enforcement of his rights.””
2 later decisions 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.