Crowley v. Genesee Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1945 · most notably City of Venice v. Short Line Beach Land Co. (1919), Brown v. Crown Gold Milling Co. (1907)
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Fleckner v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Bank of Middlebury v. Rutland & Washington Railroad · Bob v. State · Goodwin v. Union Screw Co. · Wilson Sewing Machine Co. v. Boyington
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The common-law rule, that a corporation has no capacity to act or to make a contract, except under its common seal, has been long since exploded in this country. Even in England, it has been found to be impracticable, so that the classes of cases which constitute exceptions to the rule have become so numerous that the exceptions have almost abrogated the rule. In the United States, nothing more is requisite than to show the authority of the agent to contract. That authority may be conferred by the corporation at a regular meeting of the directors, or by their separate assent, or by any other mode of their doing such acts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.