Bryan v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.2d 964 · 1935
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004
8 federal appellate · 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 Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co. v. United States · Rogers v. . Rogers · Haywood v. Lincoln Lumber Co. · Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall v. Baker · Batesville Institute v. Kauffman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The declaration of a dividend creates a debt against the corporation in favor of each stockholder to the amount due him as his pro rata share, and this is true although the dividend is made payable at a future date, or “at the pleasure of the company,” or at “such time as may be directed by the board.” * * * [Footnotes omitted.] [Id. at 1114-1115.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a petition stating that such corporation is insolvent or unable to meet its debts as they mature and, if a prior proceeding in bankruptcy or equity receivership is not pending, that it has committed an act of bankruptcy within four months,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.