Young v. Rosenbaum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The stockholders are not sureties of the corporation, but are principal debtors. * * * A judgment against the corporation does not extinguish or suspend the liability of the stockholders, and it clearly does not merge it. The remedy against the corporation may, for some cause, be suspended, or perhaps barred, without impairing the remedy against the stockholders, because the liability of the latter is primary, and is conditional or contingent only in this, that there must be a subsisting debt against the corporation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Buttner v. Adams

2. “but as no objection on this ground was taken in the court below, and as the statement is certified by the judge to be correct, it will be presumed that it was properly served, in the absence of anything in the record showing to the contrary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 69 Cal. App. 437 - Bell v. Fee Title Co.