Stone v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1. The by-laws of a voluntary association constitute a contract between the members, on which each member ■can rely. “2. A voluntary association in giving notice to its patrons of a regular ■annual meeting must give the time, manner and purpose of the meeting if ■any of the business to be transacted is ■of an extraordinary nature, such as a merger, as otherwise the members of the association may properly assume that only ordinary business is contemplated for a regular meeting, and a failure to do so voids an attempted merger as such action is ineffectual to constitute a merger, and may be enjoined.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estes v. Tompkins