Warden v. Mb McLelland Cg Jj Js Ef’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2024
3 district · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Rafael Navarro v. Sherman Block · Rolo
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder Pennsylvania law, demand is excused only if the plaintiff makes a specific showing that irreparable injury to the corporation would otherwise result. In the present matter, no demand was made by the Plaintiffs prior to the institution of the present action and the excuse of the Plaintiffs of the futility of that act is simply not adequate. No showing has been made that the corporation (CoF) [Circle of Friends] would have suffered irreparable harm if Plaintiffs had taken the time to make the required demand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of a closely held corporation, the court in its discretion may treat an action raising derivative claims as a direct action, exempt it from those restrictions and defenses applicable only to derivative actions, and order an individual recovery, if it finds that to do so will not (i) unfairly expose the corporation or the defendants to a multiplicity of actions, (ii) materially prejudice the interests of creditors of the corporation, or (iii) interfere with a fair distribution of the recovery among all interested persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where acts of mail and wire fraud constitute the alleged predicate racketeering acts, those acts are subject to the heightened pleading requirement of Rule 9(b).”); Slaney v. The Int’l Amateur Athletic Fed’n, 244 F.3d 580, 597 (7th Cir.2001) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.