Brazen v. Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2015
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Aronson v. Lewis · Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Levien · Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network Inc. · Williams v. Geier · Kaiser Aluminum Corp. v. Matheson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that although the termination fee provision may have influenced the stockholder vote, there were `no structurally or situationally coercive factors' that made an otherwise valid fee provision impermissibly coercive”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an integral part of the merits of the transaction”
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.