Warren v. King’s Empirical Analysis
108 U.S. 389 · 1883
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 6 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington (1911), New York Co v. Nickals (1886)
81 federal appellate · 6 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 16 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 St. John v. Erie Railway Co. · King v. Ohio & Mississippi R.
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the characteristics of capital stoek is that no part of the property of a corporation shall go to reimburse the principal of capital stock until all the debts of the corporation have been paid.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Creditors may resort to the body of their debtor’s property for interest as well as principal. But these holders of preferred stock are limited, for any income or interest, to net earnings.”
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.