Bossert v. Geis’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably Jane Perlman v. C. Russell Feldmann, Newport Steel Corporation (1955), 91 Ind. App. 373 - Schemmel v. Hill, Rec. (1930)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Watts v. Territory of Washington · Duncomb v. . N.Y., H. N.R.R. Co. · National State Bank v. Vigo County National Bank · National State Bank v. Sandford Fork & Tool 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Likewise, if warranted by the issues it- may be shown that his acts had been ratified by the board of directors, or that the company was estopped to question the validity of his acts by having received and used the money in the payment of the debts of the company. National State Bank v. Sanford Fork etc. Co. (1901), 157 Ind. 10, 15 , 60 N. E. 699 ; Elkhart Hydraulic Co. v. Turner (1908), 170 Ind. 455 , 84 N. E. 812 ; National State Bank v. Vigo County Nat. Bank, 141 Ind. 352, 355 , 40 N. E. 799 ; 2 Thompson, Corporations, . . . 1257, 1515.””
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.