Dolgow v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The successful executive is likely to possess a “sure conviction” that his business problems can be solved; he brings to them “a bursting enthusiasm that is not found in the average man.” 0. Elliot, Men at the Top, 224 (1959). See also, e.g., R. Kahn, D.M. Wolfe, R.P. Quinn, J.D. Snoek, R.A. Rosenthal, Organizational Stress: Studies in Role Conflict and Ambiguity, 321 (1964); R. Kappel, Vitality in a Business Enterprise (1960) reprinted in Harriss, Selected Readings in Economics (2d ed. 1963), 37, 38. An “ability to generate confidence” and to convince subordinates that the company is “going toward a goal which all would like to achieve” is seen as one of the chief assets of a successful executive. V. Packard, The Pyramid Climbers, 170-71 (1962).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Massaro v. Vernitron Corp.

2. “Whether the court should require notice to be given to members of the class of its intention to make a (rule 23(c)(1)) determination * * *, or of the order embodying it, is left to the court's discretion under subdivision (d)(2).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shelton v. Pargo Inc