Foster v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2022
6 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 American Railway-Frog Co. v. Haven · Jeffries v. Bacastow · State ex rel. Copper Butte Mines v. Guertin · Fasnacht v. German Literary Ass'n · Coldwater Copper Mining Co. v. Gillis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandamus will lie to compel an officer of a corporation to deliver all books, papers, documents, and property to his successor in office, or to the corporation when the officer has ceased to act as such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwab v. Klapper
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.