Howe v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a well-established rule of law that a stockholder’s suit to remedy a wrong'done to the corporation must be in behalf of all the stockholders, since they are equally interested in the results' of the suit.” “ ‘An injury done to the stock and capital by negligence or defeasance is not an injury to such separate interest, but to the whole body of stockholders in common.’ ” Id. p. 2429, note 1. “Money or property recovered from directors or third persons, in a suit in equity instituted by a stockholder in behalf of all the stockholders, belongs' to all the stockholders and not- to the complaining stockholder. It goes to the corporation. The decree must be for the benefit of the corporation and not for the complainant stockholders.” Id. p. 2431.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. Arizona Mut. Savings & Loan Ass'n

2. ““The avails of the litigation, if there be any, go to the corporation, and are a part of its means, as if it had itself sued and recovered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Dennett