Mills v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 25 · 1878
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1976 · most notably Bauserman v. Blunt (1893), Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn (1887)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 Terry v. Anderson · Pollard v. Bailey · Terry v. Tubman · Edwards v. Ross
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proportion of the indebtedness -with which the stockholder is to be charged can be ascertained only upon taking account of the debts and stock of the bank, and a court of equity is the proper tribunal to bring before it all necessary parties for that purpose; but by the law of the state, as declared by the highest tribunal, an action for debt will lie where the amount of the-bank’s outstanding indebtedness and the number of shares held by the stockholder can be stated. In such cases the extent of the latter’s liability is fixed, and the amount with which he should be charged is a mere arithmetical calculation.”
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.