Petty v. Penntech Papers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Panter v. Marshall Field & Co. (1981), Singer v. Magnavox Co. (1977)
10 federal appellate · 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 13 Del. Ch. 384 - Lofland v. Cahall · Schnell v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · 43 Del. Ch. 353 - Condec Corporation v. Lunkenheimer Company · Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc. · Gimbel v. Signal Companies, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“use of corporate funds to purchase corporate shares primarily to maintain management in control is improper”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one primarily in the corporate interest and not their own”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Trueblood
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.