Payne v. Ostrus’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.2d 1039 · 1931
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Dickens v. Puryear (1981), Armstrong v. McAlpin (1983)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 84 · 12 U.S.C. § 93
Relies on Corsicana Nat Bank of Corsicana v. Johnson · McClaine v. Rankin · Coffin v. United States · Yates v. Jones National Bank · Curtis v. Connly
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff who seeks to toll the statute on the basis of domination of a corporation has the burden of showing "a full, complete and exclusive control in the directors or officers charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if substantial doubt exists [as to how to characterize an action], the longer, rather than the shorter period of limitations is to be preferred”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The statute of limitations must not be applied so narrowly that business men will be afraid to take directorships, and however this bill be read in its details it appears to us not to charge enough to deprive the appellees of the protection of the act. It is said that they stood in a fiduciary relation to the bank. But they were strangers to it when they left the board, more than six years before this suit was brought. We see no reason why the statute should not apply.””
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.