Baumohl v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Palmer v. Chamberlin (1951), Allen v. Biltmore Tissue Corp. (1957)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 13 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 New England Trust Co. v. Abbott · Barrett v. King · Berger v. United States Steel Corp. · Gardner v. Butler · Dupee v. Boston Water Power Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There seems to be no reason in principle why they (the stockholders of a corporation) should not be permitted to retain the control of the corporation in which they have embarked their fortunes among themselves, or such of them as stand by the vessel, where no question of a bona fide purchaser without notice is involved. In this court, where the intent of the parties is the thing sought to be enforced, every effort should be made to hold men to agreements into which they have voluntarily entered, where the same are not obnoxious to any law or policy, and upon the strength of which others have changed their position or circumstances, or parted with a valuable consideration. It is their business and their money which is involved. It is by their efforts that success is attained, if attained at all. Surely, the public cannot be aggrieved, and individuals acting in accordance with equitable doctrines cannot be injured, because if they have no knowledge or notice of a fact they are not injured by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elson v. Schmidt“This act, of course, was designed for the protection of innocent purchasers of stock in the open market or otherwise, and not at all as a shield by one with knowledge of a condition to unconscionably protect himself from the consequences thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not to compel the individual stockholder to keep his shares forever, unless by grace of the governing body of the company.”
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.