Krohn v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
62 F. 869 · 1894
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1949
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Hawes v. Oakland · Porter v. Sabin · Scovill v. Thayer · Dimpfell v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. · Johnson v. . Brooks
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that the relief asked is in the nature of a decree 'for the specific performance of an obligation to transfer personal property, and that ordinarily courts of equity will not afford such a remedy. The modem tendency of courts, however, is towards a much more liberal rule in this regard; and, if any good reason appears why damages for conversion will not be adequate remedy for the injury a decree will be granted. Here the stock has no market value. The damage for conversion would be wholly speculative and uncertain. But the controlling reason why in this case the delivery of the stock in specie should be decreed is that the defendants hold it in trust for the complainant. The confidential relation in violation of which defendants seek to retain its possession, gives the complainant the option either to have the stock or its value. The court, as a court of equity, acquires jurisdiction of tlie action, not because damages at law would be inadequate, but because it is an action to enforce a trust, and, having jurisdiction on this ground, may-give such full relief as the nature of the ease requires. Johnson v. Brooks, 93 N. Y. 337 ; Stanton v. Percival, 5 H. L. Gas. 257; Cowles v. Whitman. 10 Conn. 121 , 25 Am. Dec. 60 ; Kimball v. Morton, 5 N. J. Eq. 26 , 53 Am. Dec. 621 ; Pom. Eq. Jur. § 14.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““6. Specific Performance — .Turisdiction—Transfer of Stock. Where jurisdiction is acquired on the ground that the suit is to enforce a trust, the court may compel performance of an obligation to transfer stock, tbe subject of such trust, tbe value of which is uncertain.””
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.