Boyce v. Chemical Plastics, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 839 · 1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2017
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Robb v. Vos · Talbert v. United States · Bowles v. Wheeler · Frank Adam Electric Co. v. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. · Home Powder Co. v. Geis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of the effectiveness of the ratification of an unauthorized act of an officer or officers of a corporation is whether the corporation or its board of directors making the ratification could in the first instance have authorized such an act. For example, if there is no power to make a contract there can be no power to ratify it.”
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.