Atkinson v. Marquart’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Henderson v. Buchanan (In Re Western World Funding, Inc.) (1985), Leavitt v. Leisure Sports Incorporation (1987)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Tovrea Land and Cattle Company v. Linsenmeyer · Jane Perlman v. C. Russell Feldmann, Newport Steel Corporation · Steinfeld v. Nielsen · Acheson v. Shafter · O'HERN v. Bowling
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Arizona a director of a corporation owes a fiduciary duty to the corporation and its stockholders.... This duty is in the nature of a trust relationship requiring a high degree of care on the part of the director. . . . [A] director does not breach his fiduciary duty so long as he acts honestly and in good faith and breaches no specific duty owing to the corporation.... . .. [Furthermore] [i]t is not the fact of engaging in a competing business that gives rise to liability. It is the additional circumstances which show a course of conduct of causing deliberate injury to the business and reputation of the corporation that supports a finding of bad faith and resulting liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Arizona a director of a corporation owes a fiduciary duty to the corporation and its stockholders ... This duty is in the nature of a trust relationship requiring a high degree of care on the part of the director ... [A] director does not breach his fiduciary duty so long as he acts honestly and in good faith and breaches no specific duty owing to the corporation ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.