Danks v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1999
21 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 United States v. Wallace & Tiernan Co. · Hyde v. Hyde · Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Third-Party v. Lee Lemay, as Administrator of Estate of Robert W. Carey, Deceased, Third-Party · 8 Wash. App. 289 - Simon v. Riblet Tramway Co. · Schriock v. Schriock
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a commonplace that officers and directors are not personally liable for the ordinary debts of a corporation in the absence of fraud, other recognized extraordinary circumstances, or specific statutory provision imposing liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dangerud v. Dobesh““[W]e would deplore any tendency to request a finding of frivolity in any appeals except those flagrantly groundless, ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houser v. Gilbert
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.