Buist v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1933
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Creditors of an insolvent bank are not required to exhaust the assets of the bank before suing the stockholders on their liability fixed by law. Bird v. Calvert , 28 S.C. [22 S.C.], 292. Parker v. Bank , 53 S.C. 583 ; 31 S.E., 673 [ 69 Am. St. Rep., 888 ]. Hence, when a bank becomes insolvent the creditors have two remedies which they may enforce, simultaneously. They may sue the bank and have a receiver appointed for the collection of the assets and application of them to the debts, and, at the same time, sue the stockholders on their liability.”
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.