Grossman v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2011
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 80A · 15 U.S.C. § 80A
Relies on In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Parham v. Cortese · Burks v. Lasker · Auerbach v. Bennett · Parish v. Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * there are adequate safeguards under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (sic) and under this bill to prevent unjustified shareholder litigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grossman v. Johnson“the section is not designed to ignore concepts developed by the courts as to the authority and responsibility of directors”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grossman v. Johnson“a subsequently enacted statute should be so construed as to harmonize with the Federal Rules if that is at all feasible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grossman v. Johnson
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.