Bingham v. Ditzler’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1986
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 Farwell v. Pyle-National Electric Headlight Co. · Seitz v. Michel · Dixmoor Golf Club Inc. v. Evans · Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Railroad v. Kelly · City of Chicago v. Cameron
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The stockholder does not bring such a suit because his rights have been directly violated, or because the cause of action is his, or because he is entitled to the relief sought; he is permitted to sue in this manner simply in order to set in motion the judicial machinery of the court. The stockholder, either individually or as the representative of the class, may commence the suit, and may prosecute it to judgment; but in every other respect the action is the ordinary one brought by the corporation, it is maintained directly for the benefit of tbe corporation, and the final relief, when obtained, belongs to the corporation, and not to the stockholder-plaintiff. The corporation is, therefore, an indispensably necessary party, not simply on the general principles of equity pleading in order that it may be bound by the decree, but in order that the relief, when granted, may be awarded to it, as a party to the record, by the decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bingham v. Ditzler““. . . It is apparent from the citations that are before us that the action that is here on appeal was properly instituted by the plaintiff, and, from the relief granted by the decree, the moneys are to be paid to the corporation and not to the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bingham v. Ditzler““The directors of a corporation are trustees of its business and property for the collective body of stockholders .... They are subject to the general rule in regard to trusts and trustees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bingham v. Ditzler
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.