Corwin v. Settergren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In cases where a bank is liquidated by a court through a receiver, the receiver may by order of the court institute and maintain appropriate suits or actions in the courts of this state on behalf of the creditors of the bank against stockholders for the recovery and collection of stockholders’ liability.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Dunham

2. “As to actions for the recovery of stockholders' liability instituted without the state of Montana, we are constrained to hold that it exists alone in the creditors of the bank, and that the Receiver has no authority to institute such actions in the courts of other jurisdictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Corrington v. Crosby