Vernam v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2018
9 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 Feick v. Hill Bread Co. · In re De Vengoechea · McMahon v. Dispatch Printing Co. · Feick v. Hill Bread 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear that a stockholder is entitled to examine the books of the company unless it be shown that the examination is not sought in good faith and for some ulterior motive. This is the issue in the case, the defendants having sought by the voluminous testimony to establish that the relator is not acting in such good faith as to be entitled to the assistance of the prerogative writ of this court. Feick v. Hill Bread Co., 91 N.J.L. 486 ; 103 A. 813 , affirmed 92 N.J.L. 513 ; 105 A. 725 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“application has the marks of a fishing expedition”
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.