Given's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1972
18 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 Eisner v. Macomber · United States v. Woodward · Waterhouse's Estate · Opperman's Estate (No. 1) · Boyer v. Campbell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The well established principle with respect to dividends is: Tt is the declaration of the dividend which creates both the dividend itself and the right of the stockholder to demand and receive it’: Fletcher on Private Corporations (Permanent edition), section 5321; Opperman’s Est., 319 Pa. 455, 464, 465 .””
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.