Senn v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The change made by the amendment was a radical one. A corporation exists only in its corporate name and a change of name was an abandonment, not only of the corporate name, but of the corporation itself. The old creature was destroyed, and a new one sprang into existence, clothed with all the new powers, and charged with all the new responsibilities imposed by the statutes which gave it birth. [Citing cases.] When the stockholders of the old corporation accepted certificates of stock in the new concern they assented to, and acquiesced in, the amendment, and were thenceforth bound for all the liabilities of the new concern imposed upon it by law. Necessarily the liabilities and burdens are co-existent with the benefits and there is no difference in principle between a reorganization and an amendment which accomplishes the same purpose. In both a new corporation is created, which is subject to laws in force at the date of its birth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dagg v. Hammons