Camden v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 104 · 1892
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1982 · most notably Morgan v. Daniels (1894), Girard Life Insurance Annuity Trust Co v. Cooper (1896)
86 federal appellate · 19 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Tilghman v. Proctor · Kimberly v. Arms · Callaghan v. Myers · Scovill v. Thayer · Handley v. Stutz
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In- cases of this kind referred to a master to state an account, depending as they do upon an examination of books, upon the oral testimony of witnesses, and perhaps, as in this case, upon the opinions of an expert, IPs conclusions have every reasonable presumption in their favor, and are not to be set aside or modified unless there clearly appears to have been error or mistake on his part.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The experience and good will of the partners, which it is claimed were transferred to the corporation, are of too unsubstantial and shadowy a nature to be capable of pecuniary estimation in this connection. It is not denied that the good will of a business may be the subject of barter and sale as between the parties to it, but in a case of this kind there is no proper basis for ascertaining its value, and the claim is evidently an afterthought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Intended to overrule or qualify in any way the wholesome principle adopted by this court in the earlier cases, especially as applied to the original subscribers to stock. The later eases were only intended to draw a line beyond which the court was unwilling to go in affixing a liability upon those who have purchased stock of the corporation, or taken it in good faith in satisfaction of their demands.””
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.