Munn v. Wadley’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1971
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Vincent v. Bullock · Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs · Nabors Oil & Gas Co. v. Louisiana Oil Refining Co. · Sample v. Whitaker · National Oil Works, Inc. v. Korn Bros.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our conclusion on this subject is that, inasmuch as the title to the real right which is now in contest was never vested in the stockholders of the dissolved corporation, the fact that one of the stockholders, Miss Margaret Porter, was a minor did not suspend the prescription of 10 years, liberandi causa.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dennig v. Whitworth
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.