Quintal v. Kellner’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably 250 F. Supp. 744 - Oil & Gas Ventures-First 1958 Fund, Ltd. v. Kung (1966), Abrams v. Allen (1947)
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Graham v. Railroad Co. · Pollitz v. . Wabash R.R. Co. · Continental Securities Co. v. . Belmont · Stephan v. Merchants Collateral Corp. · Manning v. Campbell
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no doubt that a corporate officer who applies the funds of a corporation to purposes beyond the scope of his authority is guilty of conversion of the corporate funds, . . . There can also be no doubt that a corporate officer has no power, implied or apparent, to apply corporate funds to the discharge of his personal indebtedness. These rules have been enunciated so frequently, and are so fundamental in the law governing corporate rights and powers, that citation is unnecessary.”
1 later decision 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.