Fulton v. Talbert’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 390 - Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc. (2000), Underwood v. Stafford (1967)
36 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 Rogers v. Hill · Eastern Steel Products Corporation v. Chestnutt · Thomas & Howard Co. of Shelby, Inc. v. American Mutual Liability Insurance · Steele v. Locke Cotton Mills Co. · Hill v. Erwin Mills, 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in their [individual] name[s] to enforce causes of action accruing to the corporation[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Officers and directors shall be deemed to stand in a fiduciary relation to the corporation and to its shareholders and shall discharge the duties of their respective positions in good faith, and with that diligence and care which ordinarily prudent men would exercise under similar circumstances in like positions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the corporation is so dominated and controlled by a wrongdoer as to be powerless to act.”
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.