Smith v. Dana’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably Union & New Haven Trust Co. v. Watrous (1929), Hood Rubber Co. v. Commonwealth (1921)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Gibbons v. Mahon · Minot v. Paine · People Ex Rel. Union Trust Co. v. Coleman · Christensen v. . Eno · Bailey Collector v. Clark et al.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “The term ‘capital stock of a corporation,’ taken in its strict and primary sense, ‘is employed to designate specifically the fund, property, or other means contributed, or agreed to be contributed,' by the shareholders as the financial basis for the prosecution of the business of the corporation, such contribution being made either directly through stock subscriptions, or. indirectly through the declaration of stock dividends. As thus used the term signifies those resources whose dedication to the uses of the corporation is made the foundation for the issuance of certificates of capital stock, and which, as the result of the dedication, become irrevocably devoted to the satisfaction of all the obligations of the corporation.’ ””
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.