McGowan v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1961 · most notably Sokoloff v. National City Bank (1928), Stockholders of Peoples Banking Co. v. Sterling (1937)
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 13 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 United States Tr. Co. of New York v. . U.S. Fire Ins. Co. · Tomlinson v. Jessup · French v. Teschemaker · Mitchell v. Beckman · In the Matter of Oliver Lee Co's Bank
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is objected, however, that if the provisions of the Code and Constitution are applicable they impose obligations upon appellants for which they were not liable when they became stockholders, and are in conflict with that provision of the Constitution of the United States which inhibits the states from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts, and are therefore as to them unconstitutional and of no effect. “The answer to this objection is that the constitution of 1849 provided: ‘Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time, or repealed.’ (Const., art. IV, sec. 31.) “Under the authority thus conferred both the legislature and the people had power to_ change the law in regard to the liability of stockholders, without violating any provision of the constitution of the United States. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rainey v. Michel
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.