Glenn v. Liggett’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 533 · 1890
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1973 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works (1915)
52 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Scovill v. Thayer · Canada Southern Ry Co v. Gebhard Same · Hawkins v. Glenn · Sanger v. Upton
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A stockholder is so far an integral part of the corporation that, in the view of the law, he is privy to the proceedings touching the body of which he is a member.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marin v. Augedahl · Scott v. Abbott““Whatever discrepancy appears must be attributed to clerical error; and that the matter is not open to the objection made, that the writ of error was brought, the citation signed, and the bond given before the judgment was entered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re McCall
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.