Stevens v. Lowder’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 1078 · 1981
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Rand v. Anaconda-Ericsson, Inc. (1986), Warren v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit (1985)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Richmond v. Irons · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79 · Kauffman v. Dreyfus Fund, Inc. · Gregory v. Mitchell · Schaffer v. Universal Rundle Corp.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n action to redress injuries to a corporation cannot be maintained by a shareholder in his own name but must be brought in the name of the corporation. The shareholder’s rights are merely derivative and can be asserted only through the corporation. Although this rule does not apply in a case where the shareholder shows a violation of a duty owed directly to him, diminution in value of the corporate assets is insufficient direct harm to give the shareholder standing to sue in his own right.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]iminution in value of the corporate assets is insufficient direct harm to give the shareholder standing to sue in his own right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district courts shall have original jurisdiction of ... any civil action to wind up the affairs of any [national banking] association.”
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.