Runswick v. Floor’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017
4 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 Borg v. International Silver Co. · Crosby v. Stratton · Borg v. International Silver Co. · Floor v. Johnson · McIntyre v. Ajax Mining Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal issue to be decided by this court is as to the validity or invalidity of the sale of treasury shares to defendant Floor. In proceeding to determine this question, it should initially be pointed out that the shares involved had been once fully paid for and had been returned to the treasury of the company. Officers of a corporation may reissue this type of stock for value and in good faith without first offering it pro-rata to existing shareholders.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]o long as corporate officers [or directors] act fairly and in good faith, they are not precluded from dealing or contracting with the corporation merely because they are its officers [or directors].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawcliffe v. Anciaux
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.