Goodman v. Global Industries’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1976
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Schulte v. Boulevard Gardens Land Co. · Ralston v. Bank of California · The Bank of San Luis Obispo v. Wickersham · Bates v. Daley's, Inc. · 87 Cal. App. 435 - Mancini v. Patrizi
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘directly or indirectly’ indicate the intention to comprehend and include all types of repurchases however devised, and when the section is read in its entirety it is clear . . . that it was designed to prohibit any purchase by a corporation of its own shares except under conditions prescribed within the section’s own four corners.””
2 later decisions 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.