Sterling v. Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2012
16 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 Taylor v. Sutherlin-Meade Tobacco Co. · Hitt v. Smallwood · Ingram v. Ingram · Haynes Chemical Corp. v. Staples & Staples, Inc. · Meem, Haskins & Mitchell v. Big Ax Pocahontas Coal Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘It may arise by a long course of dealing which estops the corporation from denying the legality of that mode of dealing, or by the corporation acquiescing, or by its accepting the benefits of the transaction, or by practically all of the stockholders assenting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a matter of policy and planning the business of the corporation, which in law depended solely for its determination upon the discretion and judgment of its board of directors.”
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.