Dennis v. Copelin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Bordelon v. Cochrane · 533 So. 2d 82 - Bordelon v. Cochrane · 597 So. 2d 543 - Palowsky v. Premier Bancorp, Inc. · Wilson v. HJ Wilson Co., Inc. · State v. Washington
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to distinguish between a personal right of action.... and a corporate right of action seeking redress for breach of fiduciary duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who is not a party to a contract has no claim for the breach of it, as that right belongs to the obligee.”
1 later decision 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.