Dawson v. Sholley’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
January 1898
most recently cited
1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But any such corporation shall be deemed to be dissolved, for the purpose of enabling any creditors of such corporation to prosecute suits against the stockholders thereof to enforce their individual liability, if it be shown that such corporation has suspended business for more than one year,” etc. (Laws 1883, ch. 46.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sterne v. Atherton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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