Thomas v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991), Simmons v. Miller (2001)
11 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Pickett v. Paine · 162 Ga. App. 569 - Thomas v. Dickson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it prevents the multiplicity of lawsuits by shareholders; (2) it protects corporate creditors by putting the proceeds of the recovery back in the corporations; (3) it protects the interests of all shareholders by increasing the value of their shares, instead of allowing recovery by one shareholder to prejudice the rights of others not a party to the suit; and (4) it adequately compensates the injured shareholder by increasing the value of his shares.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or a shareholder, the potential benefit of a corporate recovery in such cases is the increase in the value of his or her shares ... [but] in a closely held corporation, there is no ready market”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a direct recovery should not be allowed.”
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.