Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 120 · 1937
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 21 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 385 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Melrose Distillers, Inc. v. United States (1959), C-TC 9th Avenue Partnership v. Norton Co. (1997)
117 federal appellate · 21 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChicago Title & Trust Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Stellwagen v. Clum · Straton v. New · New Jersey v. Anderson · Packard v. Banton
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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Forty-one Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp.,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““Sections 14 and 79 of the Illinois statute (Smith-Hurd Ill.Stats. c. 32, § 157.94 note) seem plain enough on their face; but, if any doubt as to their meaning and effect would otherwise exist, that doubt has been set at rest by the decisions of the Illinois appellate courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“How long and upon what terms a state-created corporation may continue to exist is a matter exclusively of state power.... [and] the federal government is powerless to resurrect a corporation which the state has put out of existence for all purposes....”
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.