Brooke v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2009
13 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 Du Clos v. Batcheller
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where stockholders become surety for a corporation, the right of contribution arises as among themselves, where the circumstances are such as would give this right among sureties in an ordinary case. Thus, where five stockholders executed a note to a corporate creditor for money loaned to the corporation, they thereby became co-sureties for it and each was liable to pay one-fifth of the whole and no more. And each was subject to the liability to make equal contribution to the one which paid the whole note at maturity without regard to the relative amount of stock owned, by each."”
2 later decisions 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.