Hall v. Ochs’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge · Schieffelin v. Carpenter · Sibley v. McAllaster · Villars v. Palmer · Danforth v. President of the Schoharie & Duanesburgh Turnpike Road
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If officers of the corporation openly exercise a power which presupposes a delegated authority for the purpose and other corporate acts show that the corporation must have contemplated the legal existence of such authority, the acts of such officers will be deemed rightful and the delegated authority will be presumed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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