Mower v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions

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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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Without exception, so far as we have been able to discover, the courts, and, with a single exception, the text-writers, are agreed that alterations in a charter which are not ‘fundamental,’ and are authorized by the Legislature, may be effectually accepted by a majority of the stockholders. By a majority of stockholders we understand a majority per capita, when the right to vote is per capita, and a majority of stock, where, as in the present instance, each share of stock is entitled to one vote. Alterations,which materially change the nature and purposes of the corporation are fundamental, while those which work no such material change are not fundamental. * ■* “The principle upon which these cases appear to go is that alterations, or, as they are sometimes called, amendments; which do not change the nature, purpose, or character of a corporation or its enterprise, but which are designed to enable the corporation to conduct its authorized business with greater facility, more beneficially, or more wisely, are auxiliary to the original object, and that therefore, when one becomes a stockholder, he impliedly assents that such alterations or amendment may be made.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Sharood Shoe Corp. · 69 Wash. App. 767 - China Products North America, Inc. v. Manewal