Cron v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 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 Anderson v. Bean · Jones v. Costlow · Jordan v. Austin Securities Co. · Feess v. Mechanics' State Bank · Richards v. Pacific Southwest Discount Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that the directors of a corporation are charged with the duty of managing its affairs and only in cases of the greatest emergency are courts warranted in interfering with the internal operation of its affairs. It has been said that the fundamental principle of a corporation is that a majority of its stockholders have the right to manage its affairs so long as they keep within their charter and no principle of law is more firmly fixed in our jurisprudence than the one which declares that courts will not interfere in matters involving merely the judgment of the majority in exercising control over corporate affairs. (Feess v. Bank, 84 Kan. 828 , 115 Pac. 563 , LRA 1915A, 606; Beard v. Achenbach Memorial Hospital Ass’n, 170 Fed. 2d 859.)” 171 Kan. at 62 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not the function of the court to manage a coiporation nor substitute its own judgment for that of the officers thereof. It is only when the officers are guilty of willful abuse of their discretionary power or of bad faith, neglect of duty, perversion of the corporate purpose, or when fraud or breach of trust are involved, that the courts will interfere.” Cron v. Tanner, 171 Kan. 57, 64 , 229 P.2d 1008 (1951).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.