Jones v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2012
2 district · 12 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 Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Levien · Rosenthal v. Burry Biscuit Corp. · Harff v. Kerkorian · Braasch v. Goldschmidt · MacLary v. Pleasant Hills
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hi any derivative suit instituted by a stockholder of a corporation, it shall be averred in the complaint that the plaintiff was a stockholder of die corporation at the time of the transaction of which he complains or that his stock thereafter devolved on him by operation of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of die rule requiring the plaintiff to be a shareholder at the time of die transaction of which [she] complains is to prevent what is considered to be a wrong, namely, die purchasing of shares in order to maintain a derivative action so as to attack a transaction which occurred prior to tire purchase of stock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milstead v. Bradshaw“[Hie plaintiff] has already purchased toe stock by entering into toe separation and property settlement agreement with [her ex-husband]. In return for toe consideration given by her under this agreement, one of toe considerations she received in return was one half of [ex-husband’s] stock....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milstead v. Bradshaw
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.