Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Porter v. Sabin (1893), Riviera Congress Associates ex rel. Lewy v. Yassky (1966)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Attorney-General v. Utica Insurance · Butts v. . Wood · Greaves v. . Gouge · Cooke v. . State National Bank of Boston · Robinson v. . National Bank of Newberne
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The directors of a corporation who willfully abuse their trust or misapply the funds of the company, by which a loss is sustained, are personally liable •as trustees to make good that' loss, and they are also liable if they suffer the corporate funds to be lost or wasted by gross negligence and inattention to the ■duties of their trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kavanaugh v. Wetmore““And in cases of such violation, every director who participated in or assented to the same shall be held liable in his personal and individual capacity for all damages which the association, its shareholders, or any other person, shall' have sustained in consequence of such violation.””
1 later decision 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.