Fairchild v. Keyes’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2018
4 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 385 So. 2d 620 - Bruno v. Southeastern Services, 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corporation is an indispensable party”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] corporation is an entity separate and distinct from its stockholders.... [W]here the basis of a suit is a wrong to the corporation, a plaintiff may not bring suit in his individual capacity to redress the wrong. The cause of action belongs solely to the corporate entity and may be asserted only by the corporation itself or by the plaintiff in a representative capacity in the form of a shareholders derivative suit. We then stated that: "The corporation is an indispensable party to such an action." We made it clear that the rule applies even though the individual stockholder owns all or substantially all of the stock in the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffith v. Griffith
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.