Sellers v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company v. German Savings Institution (1899), 136 Ill. App. 3d 971 - Giannini v. First National Bank of Des Plaines (1985)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGreer v. Sellers
Relationships
Relies on Kennedy v. Hazelton · Humphreys v. McKissock · England v. Dearborn · Stickney v. Goudy · Johnson v. Dodge
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The individual members of the corporation, whether they should all join, or each act severally, have no right or power to intermeddle with the property or concerns of the bank, - or call any officer, agent, or servant to account, or discharge them from any liability. Should all the stockholders join in a power of attorney to any one, he could not take possession of any real or personal estate, any security or chose in action, could not collect a debt, or discharge a claim, or release damage- arising from any default, simply because they are not the legal owners of the property, and damage done to such property is not an injury to them. Their rights and their powers are limited and well-defined.””
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.