Dana v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
232 F. 85 · 1916
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably DePinto v. Provident Security Life Insurance (1963), Cathedral Estates, Inc. v. Taft Realty Corp. (1955)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University · Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick · Wabash St Ry Co v. Ham · 65 N.J. Eq. 375 - Appleton v. American Malting Co. · Willoughby v. Chicago Junction Railways & Union Stock 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It makes no difference, in the absence of fraud or collusion, that a stockholder’s suit is prosecuted by one or more, or by all, the stockholders; the suit being brought on behalf of all others of like interest joining therein. As was said in Brinckerhoff v. Bostwick, 99 N.Y. 185 , 1 N.E. 663 , the action is really the action of all the stockholders, as it is necessarily commenced in their behalf and for their benefit. And as in such suits the wrong to be redressed is the wrong done to the corporation and as the corporation is a necessary part to the suit, it inevitably follows that there can be but one adjudication on the rights of the corporation.”
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.