Williams v. Geier’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Brehm v. Eisner (2000), Strasenburgh v. Straubmuller (1996)
1 district · 88 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 TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Aronson v. Lewis · Weinberger v. UOP, Inc. · Sonesta International Hotels Corp. v. Wellington Associates · Smith v. Van Gorkom
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the highest and best form of corporate democracy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Every amendment authorized by subsection (a) of this section shall be made and effected in the following manner: (1) If the corporation has capital stock, its board of directors shall adopt a resolution setting forth the amendment proposed, declaring its advisability, and either calling a special meeting of the stockholders entitled to vote in respect thereof for the consideration of such amendment or directing that the amendment proposed be considered at the next annual meeting of the stockholders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Stockholder approval of an organic, statutory change must comply with the statutory procedure and must be based on full and fair disclosure. The burden rests on the party relying on stockholder approval to establish that the approval resulted from a fully informed electorate and that all material facts relevant to the transaction were fully disclosed.”
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.