Webster v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 65 · 1875
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably Handley v. Stutz (1891), Pauly v. State Loan & Trust Co. (1897)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Seymour v. . Sturgess · President of the Delaware v. Sansom · Hartford & New Haven Rail-Road v. Boorman · Fort Edward & Fort Miller Plank Road Co. v. Payne
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.
“We think, therefore, the transferee of stock in an incorporated company is liable for calls made after he has been accepted by the company as a stockholder, and his name has been registered on the stock books as a corporator; and, being thus liable, there is an implied promise that he will pay calls made while he continues the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither the stockholders nor their agents, the directors, can rightfully withhold any portion of the stock from the reach of those who have lawful claims against the company,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Bever“the stock thus held in trust is the whole stock, not merely that percentage of it which has been called in and paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Bever
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.