Clark v. E. C. Clark Machine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1967
7 federal appellate · 9 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · American Steel & Wire Co. v. Eddy · Peninsular Savings Bank v. Black Flag Stove Polish Co. · Butterworth & Lowe v. Kritzer Milling Co. · Solomon Solar Salt Co. v. Barber
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.
““We are compelled to hold that the assessable stock and the assets of a corporation constitute a trust fund, not only for the benefit of existing, but also for future, creditors (American Steel & Wire Co. v. Eddy, 130 Mich. 266 [ 89 N. W. 952 ]; Peninsular Savings Bank v. Stove Polish Co., 105 Mich. 535 [ 63 N. W. 514 ]; Upton v. Tribilcock, 91 U. S. 45 [ 23 L. Ed. 203 ]), and that the assets of a corporation cannot be used by it in the purchase of its outstanding stock to the exclusion of subsequent creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellsworth v. Lyons““The stockholders are not in position to complain, for they were all willing parties to the transaction and are therefore estopped to deny its validity” (citing cases).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weiland v. Hogan
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.