Smith v. First Alamogordo Bancorp, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2013
14 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 Ross v. Bernhard · Kahn v. Grant · Kohl v. United States · Kneisley v. Lattimer-Stevens Co. · Armstrong v. Marathon Oil 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to dissent from a merger or consolidation and be paid fair value is a new right that did not exist at common law, and the proceeding created by the appraisal statute is a special statutory remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“dissenting shareholders who object to a merger [or other consolidation action of which the corporation is a party] have a statutory right to be paid the fair value of their stock upon demand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The court may, if it so elects, appoint one or more persons as appraisers to receive evidence, and recommend a decision on the question of fair value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.