statutory successor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 292 U.S. 112 - Clark v. Williard · 1934Most cited · 264 citing opinions
His title is not the consequence of a decree of a court whereby a corporation still in being has made a compulsory assignment of its assets with a view to liquidation. His title is the consequence of a succession established for the corporation by the law of its creation.
How often courts cite the case defining “statutory successor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “statutory successor” — 264 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.