Shields v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 319 · 1877
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1969 · most notably Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas (1909), Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company (1879)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Railroad Company v. Harris · Curran v. Arkansas · Clearwater v. Meredith · Mayor of Worcester v. Norwich & Worcester Railroad
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power of alteration and amendment is not without limit. The alterations must be reasonable. They must be made In good faith, and be consistent with the scope and object of the act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment, or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers the vested rights of property of corporations in such cases are surrounded by the same sanctions, and are as inviolable as in other cases.” •”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tbe new organization took the powers and faculties designated in advance in the acts authorizing the consolidation,—no more and no less. It did not acquire anything by mere transmission. It took everything by creation and grant. * * * When the consolidation was completed, the old corporations were destroyed, a new one was created, and its powers were ‘granted’ to it, in all respects, in the view of the law, as if the old companies had never existed, and neither of them had ever enjoyed the franchises so conferred. The same legislative will created and endowed the new corporation. It did one as much as the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winn v. Wabash R.““Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act. All laws now in force in this state concerning corporations, and all laws that may be hereafter passed pursuant to this section, may be altered from time to time or rei>ealed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.