Barth v. Pock’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1957 · most notably Chovanak v. Matthews (1948), Duke v. Force (1922)
2 district · 38 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.
Relationships
Relies on George Whitman v. National Bank of Oxford · Bowden v. Johnson · First Nat. Bank of Charlotte v. National Exchange Bank of Baltimore · John McDonald v. Chauncey Dewey · Maryland Trust Co. v. National Mechanics Bank
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The stockholders of every corporation formed under this chapter, or which may avail itself of its provisions, shall be severally and individually liable, equally and ratably, and not one for the other, for all contracts, debts and engagements of such corporation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Amoretti““The authority of the legislature under such reserved power to increase the burden of liability imposed upon stockholders in a banking corporation, or to impose a personal liability for the debts of the company thereafter to be contracted, where none was imposed at the date of the company’s organization, has been recognized and asserted by many of the authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duke v. Force
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.