Wheeling & L. E. R. Co. v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * This coal company existed only on paper, and was owned and controlled by the railroad company. It made no move of its own volition but was manipulated by the railroad company for its own purposes and in Its own interests. But even if this is true, the bondholders knew the relation of the railroad company to the coal company, and with that knowledge accepted the bonds. It therefore cannot be held that the prior lion obligations are the contract debt of the railroad company in the sense that it itself executed those obligations. Such a holding would necessarily involve the indebtedness of the railroad company on the bonds themselves. This the bondholders do not claim. No corporate form was used to deceive them. So far as express contract rights are concerned, the bondholders dealt with the coal company as a separate and distinct entity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New York Trust Co. v. Carpenter

2. ““Since the contribution was to continue until tile prior lien obligations were paid, there can be no inequity in denying the application of the usual rule authorizing a receiver to elect not to be bound by a contract thought detrimental to his trust. The court below was right in setting aside its order discontinuing those payments.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baker v. Central Trust Co. of New York