State ex rel. Doyle v. Laughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1965
11 state decisions
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 40 N.J. Eq. 392 - Huylar v. Cragin Cattle Co. · Union National Bank v. Hunt · Lewis v. Brainerd · 28 La. Ann. 204 - State ex rel. Martin v. Bienville Oil Works Co. · State ex rel. Spinney v. Sportsman's Park & Club Ass'n
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is quite obvious, therefore, that the relator has a clear right to examine the books of the bank in question. And though the relator in his application for the alternative writ took the precaution to state the purposes for which he sought to exercise the right of inspection, this, upon principle, we think was unnecessary. If the right of inspection of the corporate books exists, whether under the statute or at common law, the purpose of the exercise of the right is immaterial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ontjes v. Harrer
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.