Boothe v. Summit Coal Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Holcomb v. Forsyth (1927), 9 Wash. 2d 45 - J. L. Cooper & Co. v. Anchor Securities Co. (1941)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Folger v. Columbian Insurance · Columbian Athletic Club v. State ex rel. McMahan · Edison v. Edison United Phonograph Co. · Sternberg v. Wolff · Benedict v. Columbus Construction Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The early doctrine that the affairs of a corporation could not be inquired into except by permission of the attorney general, and that courts of equity should not interfere with the power and authority of the directors of a corporation because that would result in its dissolution, has been modified to meet existing conditions. A large part of the business of the world is done through corporations, and it was held in Columbia Athletic Club v. State, 143 Ind. 98 , 52 Am. St. Rep. 407 , 40 N. E. 914 , 28 L. R. A. 727, that the courts of equity should adapt their practice as far as possible to the existing state of society, and apply its jurisdiction to all those new cases which, from the progress daily making in the affairs of men, must continually arise, and should not from too strict an adherence to the forms and rules established under very different circumstances, decline to administer justice and to enforce rights for which there is no other remedy.’ (Italics ours.) [Gibbs v. Morgan, 9 Idaho 100, 114 .]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . regardless of technical definitions, it is the duty of the court to ascertain the intention of the parties from their language and all the surrounding circumstances, and it is very apparent to my mind that no technical definition of the term profits was here intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[w]hen in the discretion of the court, it may be necessary to secure ample justice to the parties.'”
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.