Altenberg v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
85 F. 345 · 1898
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1929
4 federal appellate ·
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 Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Memphis & Little Rock Railroad v. Dow · Peoria & Springfield Railroad v. Thompson · Altenberg v. Grant
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No corporation, shall issue stocks or bonds except for an equivalent in money paid or labor done, or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created, and neither labor nor property shall be received in payment of stocks or bonds at a greater value than the market price at the time such labor was done or property delivered, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““And neither labor nor property shall be received in payment of stock or bonds at a greater value than the market price at the time when the said labor was done or property delivered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No private corporation shall issue stock or bonds except for money or property actually received, or labor done; and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.””
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.