Bohn v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions

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.

1. ““ In observing upon this point we cannot help seeing that the legislature evidently designed to limit the liability of stockholders to a portion only of the kinds of liabilities the company would be subject to incur; that, necessarily contemplating there would be claims arising out of contract, and also out of wrongful and tortious acts, and deciding to provide that for some of these liabilities the stockholders should be individually responsible, but not for all, the legislature proceeded to word the provisions as we find them. Instead of enacting in general terms that stockholders should be individually responsible for all valid claims against the corporation to one extent or another, the legislature cautiously and guardedly specified charges for labor and claims for debts contracted.” was in default in not filing its report was a “debt of such corporation contracted since the filing of the last report.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weber v. Draper

2. ““ If the proceedings against the corporation should appear to be tainted by fraud or collusion between the-claimant and the corporation, the judgment would not be good as inducement, or as an adjudication to fix the liability of the stockholder through it, or to fix the amount, and the suit against the stockholder would fail inevitably.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McBryan v. Universal Elevator Co.