Bennett v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Noble v. Martin (1937), 1 Wash. 2d 564 - Bicknell v. Garrett (1939)
28 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 Hovey v. McDonald · Kennedy v. Gibson · Terry v. Anderson · Sanger v. Upton · Flash v. Conn
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the liability becomes a trust fund upon the insolvency of the corporation, insolvency must be the event that gives rise to the liability, and places it within the reach of the receiver, and, this being true, it must logically follow that the cause of action accrues at the same time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duke v. Johnson““Each stockholder . . . shall be . . . liable . . . for all contracts, debts and engagements . . . accruing while they remain such stockholders, . . .” (Italics mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noble v. Martin
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.