Brooks v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · 69 F. Supp. 512 - Kardon v. National Gypsum Co. · 683 So. 2d 419 - SYSTEM DYNAMICS INTERN., INC. v. Boykin · 681 So. 2d 1348 - Travis v. Ziter · 348 F. Supp. 61 - Belcher v. Birmingham Trust National Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim based on an alleged breach of the fiduciary duty owed by corporate officers under § 10-2B-8.32 [of the Alabama Code] sounds in tort.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1 F. Hodge O'Neal & Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal's Oppression of Minority Shareholders, § 5.32 (2d ed.1999). In crediting Saliba's testimony regarding the appropriateness of a 50 percent marketability discount, the trial court not only failed to recognize the role of the modern appraisal remedy, it made possible in this case precisely the sort of squeeze-out oppression that the appraisal remedy based on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`The statute [§ 10-2A-71 , Ala. Code 1975] constitutes a more specific statutory expression of the general fiduciary duty owed by the directors and officers to shareholders under the Alabama Business Corporation Act.'”
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.