495 So. 2d 821 - Head v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2013
1 district · 11 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ross v. Bernhard · In re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, No. 76-13 · State Dept. of Revenue v. Anderson · Schilling v. Belcher
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repudiating the accompanying or resulting obligation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mazzoni Farms, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Company, a Delaware Corporation, D.B.A. Dupont, Crawford & Company, a Georgia Corporation, Jack Martin Greenhouses, Inc., F.K.A. M & M Ornamentals, Inc., and Jack Martin v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Company, D.B.A. Dupont · 761 So. 2d 306 - Mazzoni Farms, Inc. v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co.“Equity came to the relief of the stockholder, who had no standing to bring civil action at law against faithless directors and managers. Equity, however, allowed him to step into the corporation's shoes and to seek in its right the restitution he could not demand in his own. It required him first to demand that the corporation vindicate its own rights but when, as was usual, those who perpetrated the wrongs also were able to obstruct any remedy, equity would hear and adjudge the corporation's cause through its stockholder with the corporation as a defendant, albeit a rather nominal one. This remedy born of stockholder helplessness was long the chief regulator of corporate management and has afforded no small incentive to avoid at least grosser forms of betrayal of stockholders' interests. It is argued, and not without reason, that without it there would be little practical check on such abuses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“origin and purpose of a shareholder's derivative action were classically stated by Justice Jackson”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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