Elyea v. . Lehigh Salt Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1980
3 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedElyea v. Lehigh Salt Mining Co.
Relationships
Relies on Kent v. . Quicksilver Mining Co. · Holmes & Griggs Manufacturing Co. v. Holmes & Wessell Metal Co. · Campbell v. American Zylonite 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until a transfer out of his name, the stockholder of record is to the world the owner of the stock, and the assignee must abide by his action in the management of corporate affairs. * * *””
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.