Catlett v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1963
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Corporations usually act through their president, or those representing him. When an act pertaining to the business of the company is performed by him, the presumption .will b^ indulged that the act is legally done.””
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.