Voege v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Schoenbaum v. Firstbrook · Gerstle v. Gamble-Skogmo, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n)othing said in Zeller v. Bogue Electric Manufacturing Corp., or Levine v. Seilon, Inc., which did not involve mergers, forecloses the possibility that plaintiffs might be entitled to the value which defendants represented they would receive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osofsky v. Zipf“(w)here the defect in the proxy solicitation relates to the specific terms of the merger, the district court might appropriately order an accounting to ensure that the shareholders receive the value that was represented as coming to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osofsky v. Zipf
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.