Howbert v. Penrose’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.2d 577 · 1930
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Helvering v. Rankin (1935), Smale & Robinson, Inc. v. United States (1954)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Eisner v. Macomber · Rock Island Co v. United States · Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States · Tucker v. Alexander · Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Minnesota
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * That certificates of stock are but evidence of ownership, and that the ownership follows the owner, and not the certificates, is still a settled principle of our law ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to decide which stock he is going to sell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helvering v. Rankin
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.