Levin v. Schiffman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on DeGennaro v. Furr · Cheeseman v. Lethal Exterminator, Inc. · 1999 Pa. Super. 14 - Corestates Bank, N.A. v. Cutillo · 448 Pa. Super. 276 - Maier v. Maretti · 360 Pa. Super. 72 - Daniel Adams Associates, Inc. v. Rimbach Publishing, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of a closely held corporation, the court in its discretion may treat an action raising derivative claims as a direct action, exempt it from those restrictions and defenses applicable only to derivative actions, and order an individual recovery, if it finds that to do so will not (i) unfairly expose the corporation or the defendants to a multiplicity of actions, (ii) materially prejudice the interests of creditors of the corporation, or (iii) interfere with a fair distribution of the recovery among all interested persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warden v. McLelland
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.