Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Lamb v. Schmitt (1932), 16 Del. Ch. 289 - Gaskill v. Gladys Belle Oil Co. (1929)
32 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shutte v. Thompson · Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. v. Oregonian Railway Co. · People ex rel. Peabody v. Chicago Gas Trust Co. · Holyoke Company v. Lyman · Tomlinson v. Jessup
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . the purpose of the convention [that adopted the section] was to change the control of stock corporations from individual control to stock control, to do which it directly gave to a share of stock the quality of a vote. In doing this it made no discrimination between different classes of stock which subsequent laws might authorize, but provided generally that the holder of a share of stock was the holder of a vote which he was entitled to cast. Being the holder of an interest in property that conferred upon him the right pro tanto to control and regulate that property, the holder of a share of stock was then possessed of a personal privilege or benefit which he might use or reject as he chose. . .."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A by-law that restricts or alters the voting power of stock of a corporation as established by the law of its charter is of course, void. * * * ””
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.