13 E.H. Smith 287 - I. Townsend Burden v. Burden’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 1970 · most notably Kalmanash v. Smith (1943), Ripley v. International Railways of Central America (1960)
8 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBurden v. Burden
Relationships
Relies on National Bank v. Matthews · Kent v. . Quicksilver Mining Co. · Leslie v. . Lorillard · Hotel Company v. Wade · Express Company v. Railroad Company
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff is in the position of all minority stockholders, who cannot interfere with the management of the corporation so long as the trustees are acting honestly and within their discretionary powers. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.