Wilson v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2010
13 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 Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Hatch v. Dana · Wabash St Ry Co v. Ham · Walls v. Brundidge · Gladish v. Lovewell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each stockholder is liable on his unpaid subscription only for the proportion thereof which is necessary for the payment of the debts of the corporation when the property of the corporation is insufficient for that purpose. To hold the subscriber liable, the "creditor [s] must first show that they have exhausted their legal remedies against the corporation without obtaining satisfaction or that it is insolvent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.