Kaplan v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2007
10 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 Myers v. United States · Pollitz v. . Wabash R.R. Co. · Manson v. . Curtis · Fells v. Katz · Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Pierson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the charter and by-laws no action of the board of directors which is not approved by the stockholders is effective; and to make bad matters worse, it must not only be approved by them but must be unanimously approved by them. For all practical purposes there might as well be no board at all. A private business corporation without a board of directors is an impossible concept. Corporations were invented to circumvent the unity required in partnerships. 183 Va. at 335 , 31 S.E.2d at 896 . These regulations, if followed out, violate both common and statute law and are suicidal of corporate existence. A board of directors whose every act must be endorsed by every stockholder is no board at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Clearly the law does not permit the stockholders to create a sterilized board of directors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.