Forinash v. Daugherty’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Grogan v. Garner (1986), Peterson v. Continental Boiler Works, Inc. (1990)
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. · Guthrie v. City of St. Charles · 164 W. Va. 241 - Masinter v. Webco Co. · Hudson v. Carr · The Central Trust Company and Albert E. Heekin, Jr., Co-Executors of the Estate of Albert E. Heekin, Deceased v. The United States. Katharine Heekin Herrlinger, James R. Heekin, Jr., and the Central Trust Company, Executors Under the Will of James J. Heekin, Deceased v. The United States. The Central Trust Company, Successor and Trustee Under the Will of Alma R. Heekin, Deceased v. The United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Your verdict must be for plaintiffs if you believe: First, plaintiffs were shareholders in the Bank of Raymondville, and Second, defendants, were officers and the Board of Directors of the Bank, and Third, defendants as officers and directors of the Bank received an offer to purchase controlling interest in the Bank, and Fourth, defendants failed to disclose the offer to purchase controlling interest to plaintiffs, and Fifth, defendants took advantage of their position as officers and directors and sold controlling interest in the Bank; and Sixth, as a direct result of defendants failure to communicate the offer to purchase controlling interest, and defendants selling controlling interest plaintiffs were damaged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Martin“it has been considered that the officers, directors and controlling shareholders of a `close' corporation owe a higher degree of fiduciary duty to minority shareholders than do their counterparts in public corporations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Marlin“[t]he merits of this case are controlled by the law of corporations, particularly those described as `close' or `closely-held' corporations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Marlin
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.