Winthrop v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
230 F. 702 · 1915
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue · Interstate Consolidated Street Railway Company v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Conley · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. Osborn
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A corporation organized under the laws of a state, its stockholders, and all others claiming under it by right of representation, are estopped to attack the validity of a provision of the act under which it was incorporated, and which becomes part of its charter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGarry v. Lentz
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.