Millard v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Harper v. Adametz (1955), Hieble v. Hieble (1972)
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Lightfoot v. . Davis · Newton v. . Porter · Woodruff v. Marsh · Fox v. Shanley · Brush v. Scribner
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A certificate of stock, while it shows the fractional interest in the property of a corporation to which the owner of the certificate is entitled, in no way entitles the owner to the possession of any specific goods, or to any property whatever, except by way of dividends or a distributive share on the dissolution and winding up of the corporation.””
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.