Foster v. Seymour’s Empirical Analysis
23 F. 65 · 1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1935
2 federal appellate ·
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 Hawes v. Oakland · Scovill v. Thayer · Burrall v. . Bushwick Railroad Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no fraud on the corporation. At the time the scrip was exchanged for the mining property, the trustees were all there were of the-corporation. There were no stockholders unless they were stockholders. What was done was done by the corporation. By the exchange the corporation got the mining property, and gave it back again to those from whom it got it, divided into 100,000 shares of the nominal value of §100 each.””
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.