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1989

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 607 So. 2d 76 - Omnibank of Mantee v. United Southern Bank (1992), 759 So. 2d 1203 - Summers v. St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Inc. (2000)

1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

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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 Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. · 431 So. 2d 454 - Tideway Oil Programs, Inc. v. Serio · James Leroy Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corporation and Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Defendants · 32 Ill. 2d 16 - Galler v. Galler · Progressive Casualty Insurance Company v. Keys

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

  1. “where such breach is attended by intentional wrong, insult, abuse, or such gross negligence as amounts to an independent tort.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “in a close corporation where a majority stockholder stands to benefit as a controlling stockholder, the majority’s action must be ‘intrinsically fair’ to the minority interest. Thus, stockholders in close corporations must bear toward each other the same relationship of trust and confidence which prevails in partnerships....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “extreme or a special additional circumstance”
    2 later decisions 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.