Alling v. Wenzel’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1922 · most notably Coleman v. Howe (1895), Keith v. Kilmer (1919)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 McJilton v. Love · Melvin v. Lamar Insurance · St. Louis & Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. v. Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. · Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Frear Stone Manufacturing Co. · Enos v. Capps
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These two sections, having reference to the same subject, — the liability of stockholders, and the remedies by which to enforce the same, — should be so construed that each may stand, and effect be given to the provisions of each. The first section creates the liability of the stockholder and defines its extent, and also makes his assignee equally and jointly liable with him. Section 25 authorizes creditors of the corporation to bring suits in equity against the corporation and stockholders to enforce the liability of the latter, if the corporation does, or fails to do, any act subjecting it to a forfeiture of its charter, or fails to make payment, or permits executions to be returned no property found, after demand by the officer, or shall dissolve or cease to carry on its business, as therein provided. The liability of the stockholder is for his unpaid stock. To the extent it is unpaid, he is liable for the debts and obligations of the corporation.””
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.