Dimpfel v. Ohio M’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And it does not appear that the complainants owned their shares when these transactions took place. For aught we can see to the contrary, they may have purchased the shares long afterwards, expressly to annoy and vex the company, in the hope that they might thereby extort, from its fears, a larger benefit than the other stockholders have received or may reasonably expect from the purchase, or compel the company to buy their shares at prices above the market value. Unfortunately, litigation against large companies is often instituted by individual stockholders from no higher motive.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jacobson v. General Motors Corporation

2. “Objections now come with bad grace from parties who knew at the time all that was being done by the company, and gave no sign of dissatisfaction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nebel v. Nebel