Smith v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably C. Severin Buschmann, Jr. v. Professional Men's Association (1969), Vaughn v. General Foods Corp. (1986)
13 federal appellate · 33 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 Lowe v. Turpie · Balue v. Taylor · Bennett v. McIntire · Child v. Swain · Hacker v. Blake
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second paragraph sufficiently shows that the new corporation had knowingly received some of the benefits of said contract. And, therefore, it sufficiently appears that the new corporation had accepted and adopted the contract sued on, and as that contract is the obligation of the defendant to the new corporation and to nobody else, the question arises whether the appellant though a stockholder in the new corporation has any right of action for a breach of that contract; or in other words, does a breach of that contract make a cause of action in his favor against the defendant. That question has been answered in the negative by this court in Tomlinson v. Bricklayers’ Union, etc., 87 Ind. 308 . It was there held that a cause of action in favor of a private corporation could not constitute a cause of action in favor of one of its stockholders. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“upon promises to be performed in the future.”
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.