Bell v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Destefano v. Grabrian (1988), Hargrave v. Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1990)
4 district · 53 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 Caldwell v. Eubanks · S. Harold Levitt v. Edward C. Johnson, 2d · Rogers v. American Can Co. · 316 F. Supp. 1197 - Weiss v. SUNASCO INCORPORATED · Box v. Roberts
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a derivative action brought by one or more shareholders . . . to enforce a right of a corporation . . . the complaint. . . shall . . . allege with particularity the efforts, if any, made by the plaintiff to obtain the action he desires . . . from the shareholders. . . and the reasons for his failure to obtain the action or for not making the effort."”
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.