Boardman v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1953
2 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Minot v. Paine · Hite's Devisees v. Hite's · In Re the Final Accounting of Kernochan · Matter of Final Accounting of Gerry · Smith v. Dana
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That principle is, that until there has been some action by a corporation setting apart from the body of its assets some portion of them to become the property of its stockholders, and thus to pass out of the dominion of the corporation into that of the stockholders, there is nothing in existence to which the right of the latter can attach otherwise than as it attaches to the corporate interests as a whole—nothing which can as to them be regarded as partaking of the nature of profits from the corporate investment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan v. Aikin“dividends, interest, and profits,” or (as in this case)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Whether the testator makes use of the expression”
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.