Amdur v. Lizars’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 103 · 1967
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Chemetron Corporation v. Business Funds, Inc. (1982)
24 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Landis v. North American Co. · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Mottolese v. Kaufman
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action instituted in the right of any corporation by the holder or holders of less than five per centum of the outstanding shares of any class of such corporation’s stock or voting trust certificates, the corporation shall be entitled at-any time before final judgment to require the plaintiff to give security for the reasonable expenses, excluding attorney’s fees, which may be incurred by the other defendants for which it may in anywise become legally liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zimmerman v. Bell“inconvenience, loss of time, and expense inflicted upon the corporate defendant, and the danger that its treasury may be depleted by litigation supposedly prosecuted for its benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal district court has the discretion to stay proceedings on its docket pending the outcome of a similar suit instituted in another court,” because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.