159 Md. App. 706 - Tomran, Inc. v. Passano’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Edgar v. Mite Corp. · First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · Rogers v. Guaranty Trust 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 internal affairs doctrine is a conflict of laws principle which recognizes that only one State should have the authority to regulate a corporation’s internal affairs-matters peculiar to the relationships among or between the corporation and its current officers, directors, and shareholders-because otherwise a corporation could be faced with conflicting demands.””
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.