Lieberman v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2010
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Rogers v. Hill · 33 Del. Ch. 69 - Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, Inc. · 33 Del. Ch. 82 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · 33 Del. Ch. 177 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · Kaufman v. Shoenberg
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Certainly, therefore, assignments of units will be made on the basis of the committee’s judgment of the worth of the employee’s services to the company, his length of service and contribution in the past and to be expected in the future to the company’s prosperity, and numerous other factors, not the least of which should be their best guess of the future prospects of the company’s stock on the open market. A decision by responsible businessmen reached after careful consideration of these factors, without bad faith or fraud, is entitled to weighty consideration by the courts. Cf. Kaufman v. Shoenberg, 33 Del.Ch. 211 , 91 A.2d 786 .” Id.”
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.