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← 46 Kan. App. 2d 540 - Lightner v. Lightner

46 Kan. App. 2d 540 - Lightner v. Lightner’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
4
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

4 district · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Southwest Marine, Inc. v. Gizoni · Tooley v. Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette, Inc. · Kramer v. Western Pacific Industries, Inc. · Mid-Continent Specialists, Inc. v. Capital Homes, L.C. · Moran v. Household International, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hen a corporation has been injured by the actions of those in control thereof, the well-established general rule is that the suit seeking to redress for such a grievance belongs to the corporation and must be brought as a derivative action ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “been cited and applied in a host of other jurisdictions,”
    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.