174 Ill. 2d 63 - Schirmer v. Bear’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2021
4 federal appellate · 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 171 Ill. 2d 282 - First of America Trust Co. v. Armstead · 159 Ill. 2d 249 - Baker v. Miller · 167 Ill. 2d 449 - Varelis v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital · 10 Ill. 2d 566 - Central Standard Life Insurance v. Davis · 127 Ill. App. 3d 279 - Coduti v. Hellwig
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2)(a) In a proceeding by a shareholder if it is established that: (i) The directors are deadlocked in the management of the corporate affairs, the shareholders are unable to break the deadlock, and irreparable injury to the corporation is threatened or being suffered or the business and affairs of the corporation can no longer be conducted to the advantage of the shareholders generally because of the deadlock; (ii) The directors or those in control of the corporation have acted, are acting, or will act in a manner that is illegal, oppressive, or fraudulent; (iii) The shareholders are deadlocked in voting power and have failed, for a period that includes at least two consecutive annual meeting dates, to elect successors to directors whose terms have expired; or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woodward v. Andersen
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.