Robinson v. Phegley’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1935
7 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 Holbrook v. Connor · Sedlak v. Sedlak · Banta v. Palmer · Hauk v. Brownell · Bartlett v. Blaine
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, the great weight of authority sustains plaintiff’s contention that a stockholder in a corporation when confronted with a judgment against the corporation may defeat its force and effect by showing that it was fraudulently and collusively secured. The authorities hold that this contention may be asserted by a stockholder without obtaining a decree setting aside such fraudulent judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. May v. Roberts
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.