Rough v. Breitung’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Perkins Manufacturing Co. v. Clinton Construction Co. (1930), Gledhill v. Fisher & Co. (1935)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Humphreys v. McKissock · Baldwin v. Canfield · England v. Dearborn · Button v. Hoffman · Gashwiler v. Willis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Stockholders do not own the corporate property, and cannot mortgage, sell, or convey it. The title is in the artificial being called the corporation, not in the stockholders. Such property is not under the control of its stockholders, whether they act separately or collectively. The laws under which these corporations are organized provide the agencies and methods by which their property can be sold and transferred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Taber““We are forced to the conclusion from this record that this was a corporate contract, and void under the law above cited. While the corporation might be estopped to plead such a contract in its defense, it cannot maintain an action upon, it without annulling the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldberg v. Parker““ Such certificates, in the absence of some provision of law to the contrary, stand upon the same basis as commercial paper, and innocent purchasers and pledgees take title by assignment and delivery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.