Wilkinson v. Bauerle’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1969 · most notably Vanderpoel v. . Gorman (1894), 122 N.J. Eq. 332 - Whitfield v. Kern (1937)
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Hart v. Eyck · Simson v. Hart · Catlin v. Eagle Bank of New-Haven · Smith v. Skeary · Mott v. Harrington
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both reason and authority establish the proposition that a corporation may sell and transfer its property, and may prefer its creditors, although it is insolvent, unless such conduct is prohibited bylaw.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act to prevent frauds by incorporated companies”
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.