Anderson v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 349 · 1944
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 60 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 525 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Bestfoods (1998), First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba (1983)
143 federal appellate · 60 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedAnderson v. Abbott (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 61 · 12 U.S.C. § 63 · 12 U.S.C. § 64A
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Pepper v. Litton · Northern Securities Company v. United States · Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes · Chicago St Ry Co v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'n
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 525 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“large undertakings are rested, vast enterprises are launched, and huge sums of capital attracted.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The cases of fraud make up part of that exception [to limited liability]. But they do not exhaust it. An obvious inadequacy of capital ... has frequently been an important factor in cases denying stockholders their defense of limited liability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he policy underlying a federal statute”
2 later decisions 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.