Adams v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1963
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Richmond v. Irons · Ex parte Reed · Pauly v. State Loan & Trust Co. · United States v. State Bank · Rankin v. Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This liability, unlike the liability imposed by the statute upon directors or officers of a corporation for its debts, because of their fraud or negligence in the management of the affairs of the corporation, is not penal in its nature — to be regarded as a purely statutory liability — it is a liability voluntarily assumed by the act of becoming a stockholder, and an obligation thus assumed is purely contractual, contains all the elements of a contract, and is to be enforced as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Shareholders in banks, savings banks, trust, deposit and security associations, shall be held individually responsible for debts, contracts and engagements of said associations in double the amount of the par value of the stock owned by them respectively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bundy v. Wilson
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.