Security Trust Co. v. Pritchard’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1941
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 People v. . O'Brien · Hirshfeld v. . Fitzgerald · 12 E.H. Smith 493 - Flynn v. . Brooklyn City R.R. Co. · Brock v. . Poor · Kavanaugh v. . Commonwealth Trust 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the dissolution of a corporation the directors become trustees for the benefit of all who may be entitled to share in its assets and, to this end, are entitled to take possession of the assets and distribute them pro rata among its creditors.”
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.