Fowler v. Gowing’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. ““Persons holding stock as executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees, shall not be personally subject to any liabilities as stockholders; but the estates and funds in their hands shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator, intestate, ward, or person interested in such trust funds would be, if living and competent to act and hold the stock in his own name.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pottorff v. Dean

2. ““The fact that the trust estate was wiped out of existence, so far as value or financial responsibility is concerned, by the' failure of the . bank, is no reason or justification for looking to the trustee personally. The opinion of Judge Coxe, in Lucas v. Coe (C. C.) 86 F. 972 , is quite clear'and emphatic on that proposition.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Maddison v. Bryan