Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1986
22 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 Sheehan v. Sullivan · Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp. · 10 N.J. Eq. 332 - Johnson v. Hubbell · Curry v. Cotton · Landers v. Whitney
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A voting trust as commonly understood is a device whereby two or more persons ■ owning stock with voting powers, divorce the voting rights thereof from the ownership, retaining to all intents and purposes the latter in themselves and transferring the former to trustees in whom the voting rights of all the depositors in the trust are pooled."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Her husband very accurately described the plan he had in mind and she read the two papers, the will and her agreement, which very clearly set it out.””
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.