Rudd v. . Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1944 · most notably United States v. Feinberg (1944), Harrison v. Remington Paper Co. (1905)
17 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Pearsall v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Hager v. Cleveland · Haynes v. Brown · Wheeler v. Walker · Chenango Bridge Co. v. Lewis
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The books of corporations, for many purposes, are evidence, not only as between the corporation and its members, and between members, but also as between the corporation or its members and strangers. They are received in evidence generally to prove corporate acts of a corporation, such as its incorporation, its list of stockholders, its by-laws, the formal proceedings of its board of directors, and its financial, condition when its solvency comes in question. But we have not been able, after a careful examination of the authorities, * * * to find any case in which it has been decided that the books of-account of a corporation are competent evidence, of themselves, to-establish an account or claim against a trustee or stockholder in an action brought in behalf of the corporation; and it has been repeatedly said by judges and text writers that they are not competent for that purpose. In Whart. Ev. (3d Ed.) § 662, it is said that even in suits against its members its books cannot be used as ‘proving,’ in behalf of the corporation, self-serving entries. In Ang. & A. Corp. (11th Ed.) § 679, it is said, ‘Entries in the books of a corporation of private pecuniary transactions with a stockholder are not admissible against him, when it does not appear by whom the entries were made/ See, also, 2 Wat. Corp. 646.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayden v. Williams
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.