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Stone v. Kellogg’s Empirical Analysis

1897

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
14
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co. (1910), Morris v. Broadview, Inc. (1944)

45 state decisions — followed in 14 states

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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

reviewedStone v. Kellogg

Relationships

Relies on 40 N.J. Eq. 392 - Huylar v. Cragin Cattle Co. · Foster v. White · People ex rel. Muir v. Throop · Proffitt v. Henderson · State ex rel. Bergenthal v. Bergenthal

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ It shall be the duty of the directors or trustees of every stock corporation to cause to be kept at its principal office or place of business in this State, correct books of account of all its business, and every stockholder in such corporation shall have the right at all reasonable times, by himself or by his attorney, to examine the records and books of account of the corporation.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Rodger Ballast Car Co. v. Perrin
  2. ““ The only express limitation is that the right shall be exercised at ■ reasonable and proper times. The implied limitation is that it shall not be exercised for improper or unlawful purposes.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Meysenburg v. People

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.