Dobry v. Dobry’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1996
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Guaranty Laundry Co. v. Pulliam
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff’s position is that the sale of the corporation’s assets as decided upon at the special stockholder’s meeting, above described, would cause an equitable conversion and sale of his stock, thereby arbitrarily converting it into money and preventing him from selling his stock or purchasing defendants’ stock under the terms and provisions of the above-quoted article. ... .... We think it is plain from the wording of Article X that its provisions do not contemplate nor apply to a sale of the entire corporation or its assets, and that, by its own terms, it is confined to the exchange of stock between stockholders. ... As it is thus our view that Article X does not apply to a sale of the corporation’s assets, it follows that said article affords plaintiff no basis for an injunction against said sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stufft v. Stufft“are presumed to be made in contemplation of existing law and where inconsistent therewith or in contravention thereof, the law, of course, will control.”
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.