Gans v. Switzer’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1967
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Schollenberger · Whitney Arms Co. v. . Barlow · Chase v. Curtis · Steam-Engine Company v. Hubbard · Miller v. . White
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every corporation, having n capital stock, except banks, trust companies and building and loan associations, shall annually, within twenty days from and after the thirty-first day of December, file, in the office of the clerk of the county in which the principal place of business of such corporation is situated, a report which shall state the amount of the capital stock, the proportion thereof actually paid in and the amount thereof actually paid in cash and the amount issued, if any, in payment of property purchased and the amount of existing debts and also the names and addresses of the directors or trustees and of the president, vice president, general manager and secretary of the corporation. Such report shall bo signed by the president and a majority of the directors, inclusive of the president, secretary or treasurer of such corporation. In the absence, or inability to act, of the president, the vice president may sign and verify such report. If any such corporation shall fail to file such report, directors of the corporation shall he, jointly and severally, liable for all debts or judgments of the corporation then existing, or which may thereafter be in anywise incurred until such report shall be made and filed: Provided, however, that if within ten days after such failure a director, or directors, shall make and file, as aforesaid, an affidavit or affidavits, stating that the failure was due to no fault or neglect of his or theirs, and stating, also, that, within the”
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.