Christopher v. Brusselback’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 500 · 1938
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Holmberg v. Armbrecht (1946), Hansberry v. Lee (1940)
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrusselback v. Arnovitz (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 961
Relies on Bernheimer v. Converse · Hawkins v. Glenn · Casey v. Galli · Converse v. Hamilton · Sanger v. Upton
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all . . . debts ... of such bank to the extent of the. amount of stock owned by them at the. par value thereof. . ; .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A stockholder is so far an integral part of the corporation of which he is a member, that he may be bound and his rights foreclosed by authorized corporate action taken without his knowledge or participation. Sanger v. Upton, 91 U. S. 56 , 58.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Abbott
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.