Fogg v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 534 · 1890
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2001 · most notably Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. (1893), Clark v. Bever (1891)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Galveston Railroad v. Cowdrey · Curran v. Arkansas · Dunham v. The Cincinnati Peru Railway Company · Thompson v. White Water Val R 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That doctrine only means that the property must first be appropriated to the payment of the debts of the company before any portion of it can be distributed to the stockholders. It does not mean that the property is so affected by the indebtedness of the company that it cannot be sold, transferred, or mortgaged to bona fide purchasers for a valuable consideration, except subject to the liability of being appropriated to pay that indebtedness. Such a doctrine has no existence.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not attach any weight to the objection that the transfer by the old company of its entire property to the new company was illegal and ultra Vires, and therefore to be disregarded: However such a transfer might be considered in a suit to set it aside, the objection does not lie in the mouth of the appellant; for he has proceeded against the new company, and obtained, upon the assumed validity of such transfer, a decree that it pay his judgment, which is founded upon a demand that company agreed to assume as part of the consideration of the transfer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As to the point of giving priority to tlie Inst «’editor for aiding to conserve the thing, all that is necessary to say is that the rule referred to has never been introduced into our laws except in maritime cases, which stand on a particular reason.””
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.