Eisler v. Eastern States Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Hecht v. Resolution Trust Corp. (1994), Parish v. Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n (1968)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 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 Home Fire Insurance v. Barber · Matthews v. Headley Chocolate Co. · Williams v. Messick · Williams v. Salisbury Ice Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Before a stockholder may sue the Corporation to enforce and protect its rights or to redress wrongs to it, he must first make an earnest and unsuccessful effort to obtain remedial action by the Corporation itself, first by application to the directors, and then by application to the body of the stockholders. But he need not do so where the circumstances are such that an application would be futile." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.