Brooks v. Weiser’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 district · 1 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 Gallup v. Caldwell · O. H. Kruse Grain & Milling v. Commissioner · Hausman v. Buckley · Tomlinson v. 1661 Corp. · Bankers Nat. Corp. v. Barr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The fact that among the plethora of derivative suits brought over the generations none even discuss the issue reflects the obviousness of the proposition that the right to sue derivatively is an attribute of ownership, justified on the theory that the plaintiff in such a suit seeks to recover what belongs to the corporation, because as a co-owner, it also belongs to him. A creditor’s interest, on the other hand, is limited to ensuring the corporation’s continuing ability to pay him what it owes, an ability which is not in question here.””
1 later decision 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.