Combes v. Keyes’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1971
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Ex Parte Shaw · Keokuk Co v. State of Missouri · Shields v. Ohio · National Bank v. Colby · Jacob Mumma v. The Potomac Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it was competent for Dwight W. Keyes, who had been the secretary of the defunct corporation, to intervene and inform the court of the facts which had worked a. dissolution and death of the corporation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In Mumma v. Potomac Co., 8 Pet. 281 , 8 L. Ed. 945 , It was held that ‘there is no pretense to say that a scire facias can be maintained, and a judgment had thereon against a dead corporation, any more than against a dead man.’ In that case the attorneys of record for the corporation, at the time of the rendition of the original judgment, appeared, and suggested the death of the corporation after the rendition of such judgment, and alleged the same by way of a plea in abatement. The facts being admitted, the trial court gave judgment that the plaintiff take nothing by his writ of scire facias, and that judgment was affirmed by the supreme court of the United States. Erom the very nature of things, the dissolution or death, of a corporation defendant, like the death of a party to a pending action, can only be brought to the attention of the court by some one other than the defunct corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A defunct corporation, like a natural person who dies, cannot be brought into court by process served upon persons who were officers or agents when the corporation was in existence.””
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.