Plimpton v. . Bigelow’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 1959 · most notably Douglass v. Phenix Insurance (1893), General Rubber Co. v. . Benedict (1915)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Bank of Augusta v. Earle · Merrick v. . Van Santvoord · Burrall v. . Bushwick Railroad Company · Gibbs v. . Queen Insurance Co. · Blossom v. . Estes
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not doubt that shares for the purpose of attachment proceedings may be deemed to be in the possession of the corporation which issued them, but only at the place where the corporation by intendment of law always remains, to wit, in the state or country of its creation. In all other places it is an alien. It may send its agents abroad, or transact business abroad, as any other inhabitant may do, without passing personally into the foreign jurisdiction or changing its legal residence. But such agents are not the corporation, and do not represent the corporation in respect to rights as between the corporation and its shareholders incident to the ownership of shares.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKane v. Burke
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.