Allen v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1961 · most notably Hale v. Allinson (1903), Finney v. Mary a Guy (1903)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 City of Faribault v. Misener
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 5905. Whenever any creditor of a corporation seeks.to charge the directors, trustees, or other superintending officers of such corporation, or the stockholders thereof, on account of any- liability created by law, he may file his complaint for that purpose in any district court which possesses jurisdiction to enforce such liability. “Sec. 5906. The court shall proceed thereon, as in other cases, and, when necessary, shall cause an account to be taken of the property and 'debts due to and from such corporation, and shall appoint one or more receivers. “Sec. 5907. If, on the coming in of the answer or upon the taking of any such account, it appears that such corporation is insolvent, and that it has no property or effects to satisfy such creditors, the court may proceed, without appointing any receiver, to ascertain the respective liabilities of such directors and stockholders, and enforce the same by its judgment, as in other eases. “Sec. 5908. Upon a final judgment in any such action to restrain a corporation or against directors or stockholders, the court shall cause a just and fair distribution of the property of such corporation and of the proceeds thereof to be made among its creditors. “See. 5909. In all cases in which the directors or other officers of a corporation, or the stockholders thereof, are made parties to an action in which a judgment is rendered, if the property of such corporation is insufficient to discharge its debts, the court shall proceed to compe”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Hardon · Harper v. Carroll
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.