Shlensky v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 131 · 1978
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably In Re: The Prudential Insurance Company Of America Sales Practices Litigation (1998), 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1988)
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
Most-quoted passages
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“The adequacy of the recovery provided the corporation by the settlement must be considered in the light of the best possible recovery, of the risks of establishing liability and proving damages in the event the case is not settled, and of the cost of prolonging the litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... well settled, contrary to the plaintiffs’ contention, that defendants other than the corporation whose rights the shareholder plaintiffs are seeking to vindicate may successfully raise the defense of failure to comply with Rule 23.1. (Citations omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the district court was not precluded from approving the settlement of this shareholders' derivative action because it included an agreement by the parties to release claims other than those pleaded in the complaint where it found, as it did here, that the settlement as a whole was fair and reasonable. See 3B Moore's Federal Practice p. 23.1-141. See also Winkelman v. General Motors Corp., 48 F.Supp. 490, 495-496 (S.D.N.Y.1942). We think that the question of the actual effect of the general releases on the District of Columbia suit is one to be resolved in that proceeding. See Delahanty v. Newark Morning Ledger Co., 26 F.Supp. 327, 328-329 (D.N.J.1939). We are not persuaded to the contrary by the opinion of the district court in Herbst v. International Tel. & Tel. Corp., 72 F.R.D. 85, 91-92 (D.Conn.1976), cited by the [party appealing approval of the settlement].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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