Hemphill v. Orloff’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1993
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. · Hecht v. Malley · Burk-Waggoner Oil Ass'n v. Hopkins · Crocker v. Malley · Merrick v. N. W. Halsey & Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some of the cases give us a glint of the broadened field for investment of trust funds under the modern common-law trust. We enumerate a few of the activities disclosed by the case in which such trust funds have been invested: a mail order business, Thompson v. Schmitt, [ 115 Tex. 53 ( 274 S.W. 554 )]; dealing in automobiles, Palmer v. Taylor, 168 Ark. 127 ( 269 S.W. 996 ); dealing in automobile tires, State v. Gopher Tire & Rubber Co., 146 Minn. 52 ( 177 N.W. 937 ); manufacturing road material and road construction, Weber Engine Co. v. Alter, 120 Kan. 557 ( 245 Pac. 143 ); investment and construction, Reilly v. Clyne, [ 27 Ariz. 432 ( 234 Pac. 35 , 40 A.L.R. 1005 )]; dealing in land, Weiser Land Co. v. Bohrer, 78 Or. 202 ( 152 Pac. 869 ); ‘a syndicate,’ King v. Commonwealth, [ 197 Ky. 128 ( 246 S.W. 162 , 27 A.L.R. 1159 )]; State v. Cosgrove, 36 Idaho, 278 ( 210 Pac. 393 ); a toll bridge, Willey v. W. J. Hoggson Corp., [ 90 Fla. 343 ( 106 South. 408 )]; and prospecting for oil, producing, refining and selling it, if found, has not been overlooked, Wagner v. Kelso, [ 195 Iowa, 959 ( 193 N.W. 1 )]; State v. Summerland, 150 Minn. 266 ( 185 N.W. 255 ); Betts v. Hackathom, 159 Ark. 621 ( 252 S.W. 602 , 31 A.L.R. 847 ); Hamilton v. Young, 116 Kan. 128 ( 225 Pac. 1045 , 35 A.L.R. 496 ); Victor Refining Co. v. National Bank, 115 Tex. 71 ( 274 S.W. 561 ).” ( 238 Mich, at 524 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The term ‘corporation’ as used in this article shall be construed to include all associations and joint stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships.””
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.