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Brazen v. Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
6
states following
July 2015
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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.