Chaplin v. Selznick’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2013
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Continental Securities Co. v. . Belmont · Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · Chaplin v. Selznick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corporation itself can take no position in a derivative stockholder's suit which is fundamentally antagonistic to the claim asserted on its behalf. That is the whole theory which is behind a derivative stockholders' action.”); Kirby v. Schenck, 25 N.Y.S.2d 431 , 432-33 (Sp. Term 1941) (allowing corporation to defend action where plaintiff sought to enjoin corporation from carrying out personal service contracts because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.