Finn v. Ponsaa’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2006
12 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 Succession of McGuire · Volker v. Crescent City Wholesale Florist · 148 So. 2d 766 - Good v. Breazeale
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"LSA-R.S. 12:624 [Now LSA-R.S. 10:8-204] has reference to legal title only. Its main purpose is to confer on certificates for corporate shares the attributes of negotiability and to protect third persons who give value upon the faith of the certificates." Finn v. Ponsaa, 308 So.2d 352 , at page 355 (La.App. 4 Cir.1975), writ den., 313 So.2d 238 (La. 1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is very plain that a certificate of stock is merely a paper evidence created for convenience, [sic] of the ownership of the share of stock; that it is not the thing which is in reality the subject of the ownership; that the thing which is in reality the subject of the ownership is the share of stock itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“stock certificate is merely evidence of corporate ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.