Warren v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dean v. Pinder (1988), Prince George's Country Club, Inc. v. Edward R. Carr, Inc. (1964)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Northern Securities Company v. United States · Geddes v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. · United States v. United States Steel Corp. · Donnell v. Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co. · Matter of Timmis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Board of Directors shall have the general management and control of the business and property of the Corporation and may exercise all the powers of the Corporation except such as may be expressly limited by statute, charter or by-laws to the stockholders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing powers and subject to and unless prohibited by the statutes of the State of Maryland, the Board of Directors without the consent or other action of the stockholders of the Corporation may authorize the Corporation to purchase, sell or otherwise acquire or * * * dispose of, such property * * * as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine, and in payment for any property or for money or other consideraation * * * to issue or cause to be issued stock of the Corporation * * *. 01 9, p. 4 PTO) [Emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he individual directors making up the Board are not mere employees * *”
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.