Aikin v. . Wasson’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1955 · most notably Moore-Mansfield Construction Co v. Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Railway Co. (1913), United States v. Laws (1896)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the stockholders of every such company shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts due or owing to any of its laborers and servants for services performed for such corporation.”
2 later decisions 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.