Gilman v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1974
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Handley v. Stutz · Hospes v. Northwestern Manuf'g & Car Co. · Coit v. North Carolina Gold Amalgamating Co · Ford v. Hill · Franey v. Warner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule, no doubt, is that, except in cases where creditors have been deceived and misled by the corporation pretending to have a capital which it has not, a creditor can 'enforce no right against a shareholder greater than the corporation itself could enforce against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwemer v. Fry
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.