Bennett v. Propp’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Panter v. Marshall Field & Co. (1981), Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. (1986)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 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 30 Del. Ch. 538 - Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. · Kors v. Carey · Yasik v. Harry Wachtel & Diamond State Brewery, Inc. · Kaufman v. Shoenberg · Andersen v. Albert & J. M. Anderson Manufacturing 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The directors are of necessity confronted with a conflict of interest, and an objective decision is difficult. . . . Hence, in our opinion, the burden should be on the directors to justify such a purchase as one primarily in the corporate interest.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cheff v. Mathes · Mathes v. Cheff“".... Sadacca’s purchases [of the corporation’s stock] were made to preserve the control of the corporation in himself and his fellow directors... .The use of corporate funds for such a purpose is improper. The general principle has been recognized in Delaware....” 39”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the purchases were made to preserve management control”
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.