Lewis v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1996
4 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.
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.
“As to the question of the right of the Corporation to purchase its stock only out of surplus ... we are of the opinion that the statute relative thereto is primarily to protect creditors and other stockholders from fraud and damages resulting therefrom. There is no evidence of fraud, nor of damage to creditors and there are no other stockholders to complain, so we conclude that this contention under the facts in this cause is without merit.”
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.