Barnett v. Bodley’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2023
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 Franklin v. Margay Oil Corp. · Hawkins v. Mattes · Bentley v. Zelma Oil Co. · Gaines v. Gaines Bros. Co. · Methvin v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a recognized principle of law that when an action is commenced, the nature thereof cannot be expanded and changed to include matters not germane to the issues presented. This principle of law is applicable to a petition in intervention the same as a cross petition. * * ⅜ »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, stockholders cannot maintain or defend an action to redress wrongs done to a corporation as a corporation is a legal entity, separate and distinct from its stockholders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A stockholder may bring suit only when the corporation refuses to maintain or defend an action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kurtz v. Clark
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.