Heit v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.2d 1157 · 1977
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Aronson v. Lewis (1984), Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co. (1985)
20 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Butz v. Carter · Shapiro v. Lynch · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Cheff v. Mathes
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... The complaint shall also allege with particularity the efforts, if any, made by the plaintiff to obtain the action he desires from the directors or comparable authority and the reasons for his failure to obtain the action or for not making the effort....””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a transaction completely undirected to a corporate purpose,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where mere approval of the corporate action, absent self-interest or other indication of bias, is the sole basis for establishing the director’s ‘wrongdoing’ and hence for excusing demand on them, plaintiff’s suit should ordinarily be dismissed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.