Nelson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2011
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · 175 So. 2d 54 - Citizens National Bank of St. Petersburg v. Peters · 30 Misc. 2d 17 - Fleischer v. W. P. I. X. Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fate of the stockholder’s cause of action in a derivative suit is inexorably bound to the scope of rights enforceable by the corporation. The cause of action resides in the corporate entity, not in the individual shareholder plaintiff. The corporation is the real party in interest. [Citations omitted.] Having determined that the dissolved corporate body in question may not maintain the instant suit, it follows as a logical consequence that the ability to do so will likewise be denied to the stockholders who are plaintiffs here. Accordingly, the order dismissing the complaint with prejudice is hereby affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(1) Every dissolved . . . corporation shall continue a body corporate for three years after dissolution . for the purpose of satisfying its liabilities, selling and conveying its property and dividing the net remaining assets among the stockholders but for no other purpose.””
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.