Stocker v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1970
1 district · 5 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 Flash v. Conn · Hawthorne v. Calef · McDonnell v. Alabama Gold Life Insurance · Shellington v. . Howland · Woodworth v. Bowles
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law attaches to the shareholder's stock subscription a contract to pay upon the debts of the corporation, in case of insolvency, a sum equal to the par value 'of his stock. By the enactment quoted the benefit of this contract is, in legal effect, assigned to the corporation for the use of all its creditors. if it becomes insolvent. While the liability is imposed by statute, it is brought into existence by, and is included in, the contract of the stockholder. The right to enforce it is a right of action arising upon contract. It is therefore fairly within the meaning o" subdivision 6 of section 70 of the bankruptcy act (30 U. S. Stat. p. 565), and becomes vested, in the trustee in bankruptcy of the corporation upon his appointment, and qualification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Little v. Kohn
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.