Miley v. Heaney’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1969
16 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 Timme v. Kopmeier · State v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · Truman v. McCollum · Warren Webster & Co. v. Beaumont Hotel Co. · Sigerson v. Cushing
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The directors of a corporation are not permitted to use their position of trust and confidence to further their private interests, nor to become parties to contracts concerning corporate affairs intrusted to their management which conflict with a free and impartial discharge of their duties toward the stockholders.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Crook““We know of no principle of law which charges stockholders with knowledge of the contents of or entries in the ordinary financial books of account of a 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.