Foster v. Mullanphy Planing Mill Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1968 · most notably Van Cleve v. Berkey (1898), Commerce Trust Co. v. Woodbury (1935)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Shelley v. Boothe · Dougherty v. Cooper · City of St. Louis v. Alexander · Kitchen v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co. · Eppright v. Nickerson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Treating on this subject, Chancellor KENT says: 'There is a distinction taken between a corporate act to be done by a select and definite body, as by a board of directors, and one to be performed by the constituent members. In the latter case a majority of those who appear may act; but in the former a majority of the definite body must be present, and then a majority of the quorum may decide.’ ””
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.