Brown v. Halbert’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 93 - Jones v. H. F. Ahmanson & Co. (1969), Treadway Companies, Inc. v. Care Corp. (1980)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Pepper v. Litton · Meinhard v. Salmon · Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · Hobart v. Hobart Estate Co. · Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. Glen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many forms of conduct permissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm’s length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A [fiduciary] 9 is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. As to this there has developed a tradition that is unbending and inveterate. Uncompromising rigidity has been the attitude of courts of equity when petitioned to undermine the rule of undivided loyalty by the disintegrating erosion of particular exceptions. Only thus has the level of conduct for fiduciaries been kept at a level higher than that trodden by the crowd.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“perfect right [of majority shareholders] to dispose of their stock ... without the slightest regard to the wishes and desires or knowledge of the minority stockholders; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inherent fairness from the viewpoint of the corporation and those interested therein.”
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.