Matteson v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 521 · 1900
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 12 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1992 · most notably Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa (1900), Brown v. O'Keefe (1937)
83 federal appellate · 12 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · Richmond v. Irons · Sanger v. Upton · National Bank v. Case · Pauly v. State Loan & Trust Co.
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Persons holding stock as executors, administrators, guardians or trustees, shall not be personally subject to any liabilities as stockholders; but the estates and funds in their hands shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator, intestate, ward, or person interested in such trust funds would be, if living and competent to act and hold the stock in his own name.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forrest v. Jack · Rankin v. Miller““The obligation of a subscriber to stock, to contribute to the amount of bis subscription for the purpose of the payment of debts, is contractual, and arises from the subscription to the stock. True, whether there is to be a call for the performance of: tills obligation depends on whether it becomes necessary to do so in consequence of the happening of insolvency. But the obligation to respond is engendered by and relates to the contract from which it arises. This contract obligation; existing during life, is not extinguished by death, but like other contract obligations survives and is enforceable against the estate of the stockholder.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the settled doctrine is that, as a general rule, the legal owner of stock of a national bank association — that is, the one in whose name stock stands on the hooks of the association — remains liable” to the association “so long as the stock is allowed to stand in his name on the books, and consequently, that although the registered owner may have made a transfer to another person, unless it has been accompanied by a transfer o'n the books of registry of the association, such registered owner remains liable.””
2 later decisions 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.