Hall v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1996
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Graham v. Railroad Co. · Swan Land & Cattle Co. v. Frank · Fogg v. Blair · Garber v. Crews
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the directors or other officers or agents of any stock corporation shall declare and pay any dividend when such corporation is insolvent,, or any dividend the payment of' which would render it insolvent, or-which would diminish the amount of' its capital stock, all directors, officers or agents assenting thereto-shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of such corporation then existing, and for all that shall thereafter be contracted, while they shall respectively continue in office.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be filed within five years after the cause thereof shall accrue, and not thereafter.”
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.