Loverin v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Minich v. Gem State Developers, Inc. (1979), M. H. Vestal Co. v. Robertson (1917)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLoverin v. McLaughlin
Relationships
Relies on People ex rel. Peabody v. Chicago Gas Trust Co. · Bushnell v. Consolidated Ice Machine Co. · Bigelow v. Gregory · Mokelumne Hill Canal & Mining Co. v. Woodbury · Diversey v. Smith
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a corporation should have a full and complete organization and existence as an entity before it can enter into any kind of contract or transact any business would seem to be self-evident. * * * A corporation, until' organized, has no being, franchises, or faculties. * * * Until organized as-authorized by the charter, there is no corporation; nor does it possess franchises or faculties for it or others to exercise until it acquires complete existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o say that the creditor is estopped from suing the officers and directors because he contracted with the corporation or pretended corporation is to make the [statutory] provision in his favor entirely nugatory. Section 18 imposes the liability upon the officers and directors, because, being prohibited from proceeding to business, they permit business to be commenced and liabilities to be incurred in violation of their duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.