Beard v. Elster’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably Morrissey v. Curran (1981), 53 Ill. App. 3d 542 - Harris Trust & Savings Bank v. Joanna-Western Mills Co. (1977)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 33 Del. Ch. 69 - Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, Inc. · 30 Del. Ch. 538 - Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. · 33 Del. Ch. 82 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · 33 Del. Ch. 177 - Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp. · Elster v. American Airlines
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be a reasonable relationship between the value of the benefits passing to the corporation and the value of the options granted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raybuck v. USX, Inc.
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.