Chubb v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 665 · 1877
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1997 · most notably Handley v. Stutz (1891), Clark v. Bever (1891)
30 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · Sanger v. Upton · Adam Ogilvie v. The Knox Insurance Company Levi Sparks · Methodist Episcopal Union Church v. . Pickett
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All this does not alter the fact that there was an attempted alteration of the company, under the form of law, approved by the attorney general, with an increased capital, in the organization and management of which the defendant took part; that he paid his money, received his certificate of stock, attended meetings, voted, acted as an officer, and, so far as the record shows, never repudiated his position at any time, even, to the time of the trial. If. successful, he would have shared in its profits. He may have been the dupe and victim of the actions of .others; he may have been an accomplice; at all events, he was so far an actor in the affair that he cannot escape the consequences of his position.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Latimer v. Bard“it is not necessary, to sustain the action against a subscriber, that there should have been a subscription for the whole amount named in the articles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delano v. Butler
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.