Brooks v. Willcuts’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.2d 270 · 1935
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. (1975), 164 W. Va. 241 - Masinter v. Webco Co. (1980)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 United States v. Anderson · Botany Worsted Mills v. United States · Wickwire v. Reinecke · Detroit Trust Co. v. The Thomas Barlum · Stanley v. Supervisors of Albany
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the basis of the company's net worth, earning power, dividend-paying capacity, and all other relevant factors having a bearing upon the value of the stock. Among such other relevant factors to be considered are the values of securities of corporations engaged in the same or a similar line of business which are listed on an exchange. However, the weight to be accorded such comparisons or any other evidentiary facts considered in the determination of a value depends upon the facts of each case. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the price at which such property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither being under any compulsion to buy or to sell, and both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts”
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.