Downing Development Corp. v. Brazelton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Broadwater v. State (1985), Federal Insurance v. Allstate Insurance (1975)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Geddes v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. · Hunt v. Montgomery County · Griffith v. Scheungrab · Prince George's Country Club, Inc. v. Edward R. Carr, Inc. · Kacur v. Employers Mutual Casualty 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A consolidation of corporations to form a new corporation of this State, or a merger of one or more corporations of this or another state or states into a corporation of this State, or a transfer of property and assets of a corporation of this State, shall be effective when the articles of consolidation, merger or transfer have been accepted for record by the Commission.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise provided * * *, every corporation of this state without capital stock shall comply with all provisions of Part I, Stock Corporations,* * *.”, and subsection 132 (b) provides,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.