Loewenberg v. De Voigne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““How would the court ascertain the essentials which must be in articles of association, from a contract that neither specifies the amount of capital or the number of shares into which it should be divided, nor the amount proposed to be paid in on incorporation? Who shall constitute the first board of directors? Even the division of the shares among the incorporators or subscribers is unnamed. These are all among particulars which our statute requires shall be set out in the articles.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watson v. Bayliss