Bowditch v. Jackson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. v. Steel & Tube Co. of America (1923), E. K. Buck Retail Stores v. Harkert (1954)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Mason v. Pewabic Min Co Pewabic Min Co · Shanks v. Klein · Walling v. Burgess · Lapenta v. Lettieri · Gray v. . Green
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The majority are trustees, with not only the power, but also the positive duty, to liquidate the assets;” and having determined in good faith to negotiate a sale, and for a reasonable price, there is “no equity in the claim of a dissatisfied minority that the trust should he administered in accordance with their views and against the wishes of the majority;” that, “the salo being one the majority have power to make, and being free from all taint of fraud or irregularity, a court of equity will not interfere unless there bo such inadequacy of price as to amount to proof of gross mismanagement.” 76 N. II. 366, 367, 82 Atl. 1021 (Ann. Cas. 1913A, 366).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not a matter of course that a court of equity will interfere in the liquidation of the assets of a corporation or firm by a majority in interest. It is the right of the parties to conduct this part of their business for themselves, Before this right can be interfered with, it must he made to appear that the majority are assuming to exercise powers not conferred upon them, or are proceeding in a manner not authorized by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.