Sutter v. General Petroleum Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 93 - Jones v. H. F. Ahmanson & Co. (1969), Yanow v. Teal Industries, Inc. (1979)
34 federal appellate · 97 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 17 Cal. 2d 13 - Klopstock v. Superior Court · Continental Car-Na-Var Corp. v. Moseley · Steelduct Co. v. Henger-Seltzer Co. · Caminetti v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance · Adams v. . Bristol
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`injury to the corporation, or to the whole body of its stock or property without any severance or distribution among individual shareholders'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ Generally, a stockholder may not maintain an action in his own behalf for a wrong done by a third person to the corporation on the theory that such wrong devalued his stock and the stock of the other shareholders, for such an action would authorize multitudinous litigation and ignore the corporate entity. Under proper circumstances a stockholder may bring a representative action or derivative action on behalf of the corporation. [Citations.] . . . £. . . The action is derivative, i.e., in the corporate right, if the gravamen of the complaint is injury to the corporation, or to the whole body of its stock or property without any severance or distribution among individtial holders, or if it seeks to recover assets for the corporation or to prevent the dissipation of its assets.’ ” ( 28 Cal.2d 530 .) (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A stockholder may sue as an individual where the act complained of creates not only a cause of action in favor of the corporation but also creates a cause of action in favor of the stockholder as an individual, as where the act is in violation of duties arising from contract or otherwise, and owing to him directly,”
3 later decisions 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.