Clark v. Williard’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 112 · 1934
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 16 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman (1943)
66 federal appellate · 16 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Dorchy v. State of Kansas · Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Forgay v. Conrad · Cole v. Cunningham
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our judgment, the statutes of Iowa have made the official liquidator the successor to the corporation, and not a mere receiver. (Authorities.) His title is not the consequence of a decree of a court whereby a corporation still in being has made a compulsory assignment of its assets with a view to liquidation. (Authorities.) His title is the consequence of a succession established for the corporation by the law of its creation. (Authorities.) So the lawmakers have plainly said. So the Iowa court adjudged in decreeing dissolution. “We think the Supreme Court of Montana denied full faith and credit to the statutes and judicial proceedings of Iowa in holding, as it did, that the petitioner was a receiver deriving title through a judicial proceeding, and not through the charter of its being and the succession there prescribed.” Clark v. Williard (1934), 292 U. S. 112 , 54 S. Ct. 615, 120 ; see Clark v. Williard (1935), 294 U. S. 211 , 55 S. Ct. 356 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a policy to allow the assets of an insolvent corporation to be torn to pieces at the suit of rival creditors when they could be distributed equally and without sacrifice at the hands of a receiver.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it into effect and as a general rule no state court will do this to the prejudice of the citizens of its own state,’ citing Reynolds v. Adden, 136 U. S. 348 , a”
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.