Button v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 135 Wis. 2d 105 - Lambert v. Wrensch (1987), Jones v. Williams (1897)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Gray v. President of the Portland Bank · Baldwin v. Canfield · Whitwell v. Warner · Tippets v. Walker · Murphy v. Hanrahan
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conveyance of all the capital stock to a purchaser gives to such purchaser only an equitable interest in the property to carry on business under the act of incorporation and in the corporate name, and the corporation is still the legal owner of the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowler v. Shadel
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.