Findley v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 586 - United States Liability Insurance v. Haidinger-Hayes, Inc. (1970), Gaines v. Haughton (1981)
48 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 Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · 96 Cal. App. 549 - Fornaseri v. Cosmosart Realty & Building Corp. · McCloskey v. Snowden · Dowling v. Spring Valley Water Co. · 92 Cal. App. 258 - Scott v. Los Angeles Mountain Park Co.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ [C]onduet of directors in the management of the affairs of a corporation is not subject to attack by minority stockholders . . . where such acts are discretionary and are performed in good faith, reasonably believing them to be for the best interest of the corporation. ’ . . . ‘ Every presumption is in favor of the good faith of the directors. Interference with such discretion is not warranted in doubtful eases.’ . . . ‘ [T]he refusal by the corporate management must appear affirmatively to be a disregard of duty and not an error of judgment; a nonperformance of a manifest official obligation amounting to a breach of trust. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Starbird v. Lane
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.