Casey v. . Kastel’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1984 · most notably Mackenzie v. A. Engelhard & Sons Co. (1924), 114 N.J. Eq. 391 - Bankers Trust Co. v. Bank of Rockville Center Trust Co. (1933)
7 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gould v. . Cayuga County National Bank · Travis v. . Knox Terpezone Co. · Schank v. . Schuchman · Green v. . Green · Union Trust Co. v. . Oliver
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * The United States Steel Corporation is not in the same position as the defendants who sold the infant’s stock on her behalf. When it transferred the stock on its books to the ultimate purchaser and cancelled the infant’s stock certificate, it did a valid act. * * * It received nothing and retained nothing for which it can be called upon to account. It appropriated no property to itself. It was an intermediary in a sale by others; a conduit for the transfer of title. It destroyed a muniment of title merely, and did not deprive the plaintiff of her rights in the stock itself, which exists apart from the certificate. * * * It was guilty of no conversion after disaffirmance. * * * the courts have not gone so far as to say that the acts of a corporation in recording a transfer of stock amount to a conversion of the stock. “The transfer being voidable only and legal and valid when made, the corporation had no right to refuse a transfer. * * * It could have been compelled by the purchaser by recourse to the proper remedy to make it. * * * ””
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.