Stoecker v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gillett v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · Sprague v. National Bank of America · Easton National Bank v. American Brick & Tile Co. · Williams' Exr. v. Chamberlain · Moore v. United States One Stave Barrel 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though it be true that they incurred no liability to the corporation because of its conduct in permitting its agents to represent the common stock as fully paid, yet they incurred a liability to the creditors of the corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Bosworth
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.