Allen v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Louisiana World Exposition v. Federal Insurance (1988), Pritchard v. Myers (1938)
6 federal appellate · 35 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 Percy v. Millaudon · 8 Mart. (N.S.) 68 - Percy v. Millaudon · State v. Hunsicker
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.
“Officers and directors are merely agents of the corporation, and, except for acts of malfeasance, are answerable to it alone. A creditor of a corporation has no right of action against the corporation's agents for gross negligence or maladministration of corporate affairs or omission of duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he corporation itself and, in proper cases, the stockholders have a right of action against the agents of the corporation for gross negligence, maladministration of the corporate affairs, and omissions of official duty....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as the directors are the agents of the bank, they are not responsible to third persons for mere negligence of duty or nonfeasance toward their principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellett v. Newland
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.