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voting stock

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 315 U.S. 194 - Helvering v. Southwest Consolidated Corp. · 1942Most cited · 446 citing opinions

warrants excluded

A warrant holder 'does not become a stockholder, by his contract, in equity any more than at law.' His rights are wholly contractual. He does not have, and may never acquire, any legal or equitable rights in shares of stock.

How often courts cite the case defining “voting stock”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voting stock” — 446 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.