Hatinen v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the action be against a private domestic corporation, the summons may be served by delivering a copy thereof to its president, vice-president, secretary, cashier, or treasurer, or to any director or managing agent thereof.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Derrick v. Drolson Co. Inc. · Dillon v. Gunderson

2. ““* * * the officers upon whom this statute authorizes service to be made, unless a ‘managing agent’ be an exception, are the principal executive officers of the corporation, and all of much the same rank. In view of the connection in which the term ‘managing agent’ is used, we think the legislature intended thereby only those agents who possess powers similar in character and importance to those possessed by the officers expressly named; that they intended only those agents who have charge and control of the business activities of the corporation or of some branch or department thereof, and who, in respect to the matters entrusted to them, are vested with powers requiring the exercise of an independent judgment and discretion. This'is the meaning usually given to the term ‘managing agent.’ 26 Cyc. 123; 19 Enc. Pl. & Pr. 662, 680; 9 Fletcher, Cyclopedia of Corporations, 10, 380, and the cases cited in these works.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dillon v. Gunderson