Kutchera v. Kutchera’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Oakland Scavenger Co. v. Gandi · McDonald v. Miller · Rovenko v. Bokovoy · Guaranty Laundry Co. v. Pulliam · Sprenger v. Sprenger
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally speaking, the owner of corporate stock has the absolute right to transfer his stock, except insofar as that right is restricted by the corporate charter or the articles of incorporation, by statute, by valid bylaw or resolution, or by agreement.... “It has been held that even an invalid bylaw may operate as a binding agreement upon those who assent to it, if it is not contrary to public policy. . . . However, stockholders’ agreements restricting sale of corporate stock to remaining stockholders before selling to strangers will be construed so as to give the widest range of choice permissible under the language used in the agreement.” [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sorlie v. Ness
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.