Springfield Lighting Co. v. Hobart’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1949
16 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 Beers v. Wolf · County of Scotland v. Thomas · Craig v. . Parkis · Thompson v. Abbott · County of Callaway v. Foster
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of the agreement of consolidation under the statute (sec. 1334) is, as we think, to transfer all the ‘rights, privileges and property’ of each of the consolidating corporations to the new corporation. “Included in this transfer was the contract between the Electric Railwav and the Electric Light Company, which carried with it, as an incident, the undertaking of the surety, the defendant, even though said undertaking was not in express terms transferred with the said principal obligation. The manifest purpose of the statute in such cases is to give the consolidated corporation the benefit of all the rights of every kind, including such as that here, and a right of action thereon.””
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.