Davenport v. Dows’s Empirical Analysis
85 U.S. 626 · 1873
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), Ross v. Bernhard (1970)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Trask v. Maguire
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But such a suit can only be maintained on the ground that tho rights of the corporation are involved. These rights the individual shareholder is allowed to assert on behalf of himself and associates, because the directors of the corporation decline to take the proper steps to assert them. * * * The relief is asked on behalf of the corporation, not the individual shareholder; and, if it be granted, the complainant derives only an incidental benefit from it.””
4 later decisions 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.