Willliams v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Virginia Department of Corrections v. Brown · Niese v. City of Alexandria · Steward v. HOLLAND FAMILY PROPERTIES, LLC
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the statutory demand requirement is to put the corporation on notice of a shareholder’s objection to an alleged wrong and permit the corporation an opportunity to redress the wrong. . . . [I]n light of this purpose, it is error to allow a plaintiff to bring a derivative action seeking redress of wrongs not addressed in a written demand, as the corporation has not yet been given the opportunity to redress such wrongs itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Midgett
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.