Webb v. Cash’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1968
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Briggs v. Spaulding · Corsicana Nat Bank of Corsicana v. Johnson · Yates v. Jones National Bank · First Nat. Bank of Charlotte v. National Exchange Bank of Baltimore · Bowerman v. Hamner
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . By the great weight of authority, it is held that the directors of a bank are liable only to the corporation, whose agents and trustees they are, for violation or neglect of their official duty, and that, accordingly, no action lies against them by an individual creditor, in the absence of a specific statute authorizing it, but that the right of action belongs to the corporation as such, or to its receiver, and must ordinarily be brought by it or him. Some of the cases deny such action to a creditor, on behalf of the corporation, even where the corporation itself or the receiver refuses to bring the action. [Citing cases.] ””
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.