Giannotti v. Hamway’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Landstrom v. Shaver (1997), Marriott Corp. v. Combined Properties Ltd. Partnership (1990)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 Treadway Companies, Inc. v. Care Corp. · Adelman v. Conotti Corporation · F. F. White and P & W Oil Co. v. Perkins · Rowland v. Kable · Gottlieb v. Economy Stores, 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Survival of remedy after termination of corporate existence. -- The termination of corporate existence shall not take away or impair any remedy available to or against the corporation, its directors, officers or shareholders for any right or claim existing or any liability incurred prior to such termination. Any such action or proceeding by or against the corporation may be prosecuted or defended by the corporation in its corporate name. The shareholders, directors and officers shall have power to take such corporate or other action as shall be appropriate to protect such remedy, right or claim. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts are hesitant to question the reasonableness of a corporate officer’s compensation when it is set by a disinterested board. However, as in this case, where the directors of a close corporation elect themselves as officers and set their own salaries and they are all accused of combining to fix excessive salaries for each other, it is impossible to have a “disinterested board.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen transactions have occurred between fiduciaries and [the corporation], the burden of proof lies upon the [fiduciary] to show that the transaction has been fair.”
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.