Gottlieb v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1987
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. · Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co. · 33 Del. Ch. 177 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · Elster v. American Airlines · 19 Del. Ch. 172 - Gow v. Consolidated Coppermines Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test seems to be whether there was a specific duty on the part of the officer or director sought to be held liable to act or contract in the particular matter as the representative of the corporation.”
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.