Handlan v. Handlan’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably 164 W. Va. 241 - Masinter v. Webco Co. (1980), Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company (1960)
35 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 Bailey v. Interstate Airmotive, Inc. · Schneider v. Schneider · In Re Adoption of Duren v. Hicks · Oganaso v. Mellow · 235 Mo. App. 461 - Robinson v. Nick
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that courts should proceed with great caution in appointing receivers for corporations, and will do so only to prevent irreparable injury or to prevent justice from being defeated, and only when there is no other adequate remedy; that `this great power * * * ought to be exercised * * * ordinarily only in cases of imminent danger of loss, or of damage or of miscarriage of justice'”
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.