Kaplan v. Fenton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2006
5 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 Guth v. Loft, Inc. · 35 Del. Ch. 479 - Johnston v. Greene · 43 Del. Ch. 160 - Equity Corporation v. Milton · Equity Corp. v. Milton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By reason of the Guth case, if a business opportunity comes to a corporate director in his individual capacity, and if the opportunity is not essential to his corporation and in which his corporation has no interest, and if the corporate resources have not been wrongfully embarked therein, the corporate director is free to treat the opportunity as his own. (citing Guth v. Loft, Del.Supr., 5 A.2d 503 (1939)), 278 A.2d at 836 .”
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.