Chandler v. Peketz’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 609 · 1936
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Hansberry v. Lee (1940), Markham v. Allen (1946)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Fauntleroy v. Lum · Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Bernheimer v. Converse · Converse v. Hamilton · Hancock National Bank v. Farnum
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he order levying the assessment is made conclusive as to all matters relating to the amount and propriety thereof, and the necessity therefor; that it is thus conclusive, although the stockholder may not have been a party to the suit in which it was made or notified that an assess ment was contemplated, as the order is not in the nature of a personal judgment against him and he must be deemed, by virtue of his relation to the corporation and the obligation assumed with respect to its debts, to be represented by it in the proceeding .... ””
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.