Lange v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1961
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. New York & Northern Railway 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A corporation is an artificial being, separate and distinct from its agents, officers, and stockholders. Its dealings- with another corporation, although it may be composed in part of persons who own the majority of the stock in each company, and may be managed by the same officers, if they be in good faith and free from fraud, stand upon the same basis, and affect it and the ether corporation in the same manner and to the same extent, that they would if each had been composed of different stockholders and controlled by different officers.””
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.