Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 181 · 1900
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 51 district · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 386 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
58 federal appellate · 51 district · 173 state decisions — followed in 35 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hawes v. Oakland · Scovill v. Thayer · Barney v. Baltimore City · Dodge v. Woolsey
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 386 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`If the law concerned itself with the motives of parties new complications would be introduced into suits which might seriously obscure their real merits. * * *'" Id., at 757 , quoting Dickerman v. Northern Trust Company, 176 U.S. 181, 190 , 20 S.Ct. 311, 314 , 44 L.Ed. 423 (1900).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in matters of practice and pleading it is usually construed, and sometimes defined by rule of court, as within twenty-four hours.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A promoter is one who ‘brings together the persons who become interested in the enterprise, aids in procuring subscriptions, and sets in motion the machinery which leads to the formation of the corporation itself.’ Cook, Stock & Stockholders, §' 651. Or, as defined by the English statute of 7&8 Vict, chap. 110, § 3, ‘every person acting, by whatever name, in the forming and establishing of a company at any period prior to the company’ becoming fully incorporated. See also, Lloyd, Corporate Liability for Acts of Promoters, 17. He is treated as standing in a confidential relation to the proposed company, and is bound to the exercise of the utmost good faith. Lloyd, Corporate Liability, 18; Densmore Oil Co. v. Densmore, 64 Pa. 43 ; Bosher v. Richmond & H. Land Co., 89 Va. 455 , 16 S. E. 360 [ 37 Am. St. Rep. 879 ]. The promoter is the agent of the corporation and subject to the disabilities of an ordinary agent. His acts are scrutinized carefully, and he is precluded from taking a secret advantage of the other stockholders. Cook, Stock & Stockholders, § 651. ‘Accordingly, it has been held that, if persons start a company, and induce others to subscribe for shares, for the purpose of selling property to the company when organized, they must faithfully disclose all facts relating to the property which would influence those who form the company in deciding upon the judiciousness of the purchase. If the promoters are guilty of any misrepresentation of facts, or suppression of the t”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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