Cheff v. Mathes’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2019
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 30 Del. Ch. 538 - Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. · Bennett v. Propp · Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company · Kors v. Carey · Karasik v. Pacific Eastern Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(D)irectors satisfy their burden by showing good faith and reasonable investigation; the directors will not be penalized for an honest mistake of judgment, if the judgment appeared reasonable at the time the decision was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Trueblood
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.