Russell P. Miller and Margaret Jane Miller, His Wife v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company (Hereafter At&t)’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 759 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably Cort v. Ash (1975), Lewis v. Curtis (1982)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Conley v. Gibson · United States v. CIO · United States v. International Union United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers · United Copper Securities Company v. Amalgamated Copper Company · Nations v. Morris
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sound business judgment rule ... expresses the unanimous decision of American courts to eschew intervention in corporate decision-making if the judgment of directors and officers i[s] uninfluenced by personal considerations and is exercised in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at minimum must establish that legitimate business justifications did not underlie the alleged inaction [failure to collect the debt] of the defendant directors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“decision not to collect a debt owed the corporation is itself alleged to have been an illegal act,”
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.