Hirsch v. Phily’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp. (1989), In Re the Estate of Miller (1982)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 34 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 Cogan v. Conover Manufacturing Co. · American Pin Co. v. Wright · Reliable Woodworking Co. v. Lindeman · Rose v. Bernhardt
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the officers of a corporation are personally liable to one whose money or property has been misappropriated or converted by them to the uses of the corporation, although they derived no personal benefit therefrom and acted merely as agents of the corporation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As checks were received from the customers of [the defendant] in payment of the accounts assigned to the plaintiff, the checks would be noted on a collection report by [the defendant] and both the checks and the collection report would be held for ..., the plaintiffs agent in charge of [defendant’s] account, who would usually call at the [defendant’s] office twice a week. [The plaintiffs agent] would examine the checks and the collection report and receive from [the defendant] its check drawn on its general account to the order of the plaintiff for the amount of the promissory note secured by the particular assigned accounts represented by the customers’ cheeks. [The defendant] then deposited the customers’ checks in its own account. [Id. at 411, 73 A.2d 173 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is difficult to conceive of more effective language to express an outright assignment either technically or historically. By the assignments all right, title and interest to the [contractual rights] in question was transferred ... [4 NJ. at 414]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.