Lowry v. . Inman’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1985 · most notably Dennick v. Railroad Co. (1880), Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn (1887)
1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A personal liability of stockholders for the debts of a corporation, in virtue of the charter, is not in the nature of a penalty or forfeiture, and does not exist solely as a liability imposed by statute. It is not enforced simply as a statutory obligation, but is regarded as voluntarily assumed by the act of becoming a stockholder. By such act he assents to be bound, or that his property shall be charged, with the debts of the corporation, to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the act of incorporation. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witters v. Sowles
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.