O'Brien v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Everett v. 357 Corp. (2009), Reading Co-Operative Bank v. Suffolk Construction Co. (2013)
46 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Meinhard v. Salmon · Joseph v. United States · Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anywhere in the evidence, from whatever source derived, any combination of circumstances could be found from which a reasonable inference could be made in favor of the [defendant].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the [defendant] and disregard that favorable to the [plaintiffs].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the alleged wrongdoer can demonstrate a legitimate business purpose for his action, no liability will result unless the wronged shareholder succeeds in showing that the proffered legitimate objective could have been achieved through a less harmful, reasonably practicable, alternative mode of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.