Buttles v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Nasaba Corp. v. Harfred Realty Corp. (1942), Hearn 45 St. Corp. v. Jano (1940)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 American Surety Co. v. Conner · Potter v. Walker · Darcy v. Brooklyn & New York Ferry Co. · Hanover Fire Insurance v. Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co. · Frank Shepard Co. v. Zachary P. Taylor Publishing 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an action is brought under * * * section 15 of the Stock Corporation Law, no cause of action accrues to a creditor [of the corporation] until judgment has been obtained and execution returned unsatisfied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kellner v. Saye
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.