McGarry v. Lentz’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.2d 51 · 1926
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2020
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Chicot County Ark v. Sherwood · Terral v. Burke Construction Co. · Relfe v. Rundle · Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum 419 v. Samuel Green
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Obviously, no state Legislature can regulate, limit, or control the jurisdiction of the federal courts, nor can the laws of any state preclude resort to the federal courts, nor confer exclusive jurisdiction upon a designated state court, in a class of cases of which the federal courts of equity have theretofore been accustomed to assume jurisdiction. * * * On the other hand, that the state had the power to regulate the method of government, and to prescribe or limit the right of members to participate in the control, of a corporation of its own creation, cannot be doubted. The corporation being the mere creature of the law to which it owes its existence, it has very early been held ‘to be capable of exerting its faculties only in the manner in which that act authorizes.’ ■ * * * When the state has exercised this power of regulation prior to the time that an individual becomes a member of the society or corporation, the statutory provisions also become a part o.f the contract of membership and are controlling in the definition of the rights of the members. * * * “In view of the quasi public nature of fraternal benefit societies, the undoubted power of control of the state over its own corporations, the assumption of general supervisory powers and control by the state, and the necessity of and reason for a centralization of management, protected from attack except in the general interest of all, as represented by the Attorney General, we conclude that this statutory provision ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘-Section 6112. No application for injunction against, or proceedings for the dissolution of, or the appointment of a receiver for, any such domestic society or branch thereof shall be entertained by any court in this State unless the same is made by the Attorney General.””
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.