Tenison v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably International Bankers Life Insurance Co. v. Holloway (1963), Gearhart Industries, Inc. v. Smith International, Inc. (1984)
6 federal appellate · 74 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.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of directors to make fair contracts generally with the corporation is comprehensively stated by many authorities, and such contracts have been upheld in numerous cases, some of them involving purchases of corporate property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The argument in support of the judgment rests upon the principle that a trustee, or person occupying a fiduciary relation to another, is incapacitated, in equity, to buy from himself property committed to his care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Zorn“When a personal interest of one of them [directors] springs up adverse to that of the corporation, it disqualifies him to act concerning it as one of the representatives or agents.”
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.