Ellis v. Vandergrift’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1992
23 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 Montgomery Light Co. v. Lahey · Truss v. Miller · Allen v. Watts · Stone v. Knickerbocker Life Insurance · Bentley v. Barnes
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No demand or request of the corporate authorities is required to be made, as a condition to suit by the stockholder, where it can be inferred with reasonable certainty that it would be refused,’ actually or virtually, or where, being the wrongdoers, a majority of the governing body would control the litigation so requested or demanded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Ide
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.