Lowe v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1992
15 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 Crossman v. Vivienda Water Co. · Newhall v. Western Zinc Min. Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action or proceeding does not abate by the death, or any disability of a party, * * * if the cause of action survive or continue. In case of the death or any disability of a party, the court, on motion, may allow the action or proceeding to be continued by or against his representative or successor in interest.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““At the time of the decision of the Cross-man Case (February 21, 1907), the only provision in the Act of March 20, 1905, bearing upon this matter was section 10a added by Act approved June 13, 1906 (Stats. Ex. Sess. 1906, p. 22). This section provided that in all cases of forfeiture' under the provisions of the act, the directors or managers in office of the affairs of any domestic corporation whose charter may be so forfeited, are deemed to be trustees of the corporation and stockholders or members, with full power to settle the affairs of the corporation, ‘and to maintain or defend any action or proceeding then pending in behalf of or against any of said corporations,’ and to take such legal proceedings as may be necessary to fully settle the affairs of the corporation, and that such directors or managers, as such trustees, may be sued by any person having a claim against such corporation. This, in substance, is very similar to section 400 of the Civil Code, hereinbefore quoted. “By act approved March 20, 1907 (Stats. 1907, p. 745), this section was amended by the addition of a proviso which reads as follows : ‘Provided always that no action pending against any corporation shall abate thereby, but may be prosecuted to final judgment, the same may be enforced by execution with the same force and effect and in like manner as though no forfeiture had occurred,’ and also by the addition of another proviso which is immaterial here. “It will be observed that the proviso quoted ab”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.