Dowd v. Front Range Mines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1988
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1401
Relies on Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Smith v. Sperling · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Richman Bros. · Leiter Minerals, Inc. v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f an action is brought by a stockholder on behalf of himself and the other stockholders, [corporate officers] must be made parties defendant, so that they may have an opportunity to defend, and so that redress or relief may be given against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Directors are not indispensable parties ... unless they themselves are wrongdoers.”
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.