Allen v. Ferrera’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2025
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Sutton v. Duke · Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co. v. Board of Commissioners · Barger v. McCoy Hillard & Parks · Hajmm Co. v. House of Raeford Farms, Inc. · Gray v. North Carolina Insurance Underwriting
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff's failure to fulfill the statutory requirements for bringing a shareholder derivative action [is an] . . . insurmountable bar [to recovery].”
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.