Roller v. Madison’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““The exemption from liability for the indebtedness of the corporation is given by statute to those associated in the enterprise as members and it is a gift only a sovereign can bestow. The parties can never by any sort of agreement among* themselves attain such immunity. This immunity never having-been extended by legislative enactment in this state to the members of a joint stock company, they are necessarily under our law individually liable for all the obligations of such a company in exactly the' same sense and way that partners are liable for the obligations of the firm. It therefore results that appellee did not have to sue the company rather than its members, and that it was not a necessary party to the suit. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Standard Drilling Co. v. Slate