Caplan v. Lionel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. New York & Northern Railway Co. · 15 E.H. Smith 78 - McClure v. . Law · Barnes v. . Brown
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there has been a transfer of the majority of the stock, or even such a percentage as gives working control, a change of directors by resignation and filling of vacancies is proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Marlin
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.