Whaley v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1964
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In each case there is an obligation to the same trust fund. The two obligations are of the same character. Corporate creditors have a right to demand that all stockholders pay in the amount of their subscriptions to capital stock. Such creditors have an equal right to demand that such sums so paid in be allowed to remain by the stockholders as security for the debts of the corporation.”
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.