Winchester v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Combes v. Getz (1932), Chesney v. Byram (1940)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 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 United States v. Britton · Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick · Hornor v. Henning · Moses Groves v. Robert Slaughter · Fox v. Hale & Norcross Silver Mining 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Directors are also trustees for the stockholders and indirectly for the creditors. * * * Directors and officers of corporations, as well as trustees, have always been held responsible for loss resulting from misappropriations of the trust property made by them or with their consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Directors are also trustees for the stockholders and indirectly for the creditors. They have always been held responsible as trustees in their management of the property and affairs of the corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.