Schreiber v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Meiselman v. Meiselman (1983), Blasband v. Rales (1992)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Guth v. Loft, Inc. · 33 Del. Ch. 293 - Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp. · Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Levien · 33 Del. Ch. 69 - Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f there is presented to a corporate officer or director a business opportunity which the corporation is financially able to undertake, is ... in the line of the corporation’s business and is of practical advantage to it, is one in which the corporation has an interest or a reasonable expectancy, and, by embracing the opportunity, the self-interest of the officer or director will be brought into conflict with that of his corporation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In any derivative suit instituted by a stockholder of a corporation, it shall be averred in the complaint that the plaintiff was a stockholder of the corporation at the time of the transaction of which he complains or that his stock thereafter devolved upon him by operation of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“test to be applied in such situations concerns whether the wrong complained of is in actuality a continuing one or is one which has been consummated.... [W]hat must be decided is when the specific acts of alleged wrongdoing occur, and not when their effect is felt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blasband v. Rales
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.