Handley v. Stutz’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 366 · 1890
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 22 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1993 · most notably Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. (1939), Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz (1923)
54 federal appellate · 22 district · 5 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 Sawyer v. Hoag · Johnson v. Waters · Gibson v. Shufeldt · Hatch v. Dana
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sums alleged to be due from the corporation to the original plaintiffs amounting to more than $2,000, th.e Oircuit Court had jurisdiction of the case, and authority to administer and distribute the amounts due from the individual defendants to the corporation for unpaid subscriptions to stock as a trust fund for the benefit of all the creditors of the corporation, and for that purpose to permit creditors, who had not originally joined in the hill, to come in and prove their claims before a master.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robertson v. Conway
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.