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Woods v. Wicks’s Empirical Analysis

1881

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1953
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “after a corporate capacity has been acquired, a personal liability of the stockholder is inconsistent therewith, and cannot be imposed for a failure to perform some act except by a clear legislative direction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “No court of another sovereignty can be expected to enforce such a penalty.”
    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.