Stone v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Cartwright v. Braly (1928), Williams v. Bedenbaugh (1926)
39 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 Mead v. . Bunn · Hafer v. Cole · Moore & Handley Hardware Co. v. Towers Hardware Co. · Gent v. Manufacturers & Merchants' Mutual Insurance · Bosher v. R. & H. Land 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general doctrine is well established, and obtains both at law and in equity, that a corporation is a distinct entity, to be considered separate and apart from the individuals who compose it, and is not to be affected by the personal rights, obligations and transactions of its stockholders; and this, whether said rights accrued, or obligations were incurred, before or subsequent to incorporation.””
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.