72 N.C. App. 537 - Alford v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2022
2 district · 16 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Burks v. Lasker · Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp. · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The demand requirement serves the obvious purpose of allowing the corporation the opportunity to remedy the alleged problem without resort to judicial action, or, if the problem cannot be remedied without judicial action, to allow the corporation, as the true beneficial party, the opportunity to bring suit first against the alleged wrongdoers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Procedurally, the ... plaintiffs must first seek to obtain their remedy within the corporation itself, unless such demand would be futile.”
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.