Monroe v. Scofield’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 725 · 1943
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Becker (1949), Bostian v. Schapiro (1944)
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · In Re McCrory Stores Corporation
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a corporation is a going concern, a director may purchase a claim against the corporation at a discount and enforce it for the full amount, absent a present duty on his part to act for the corporation. However, where the corporation is insolvent, he is precluded from recovering more than he paid for the claim unless by an order of the court or otherwise he has been shorn of all power in the corporate management and his trust relationship has been fully terminated."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is limited in his right of recovery to the $200 which he paid for his claim.”
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.