Nevins v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2022
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Rales v. Blasband Ex Rel. Easco Hand Tools, Inc. · Stroud v. Grace · Michelson v. Duncan · Blasius Industries, Inc. v. Atlas Corp. · M.G. Bancorporation, Inc. v. Le Beau
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Void acts are not ratifiable because the corporation cannot, in any case, lawfully accomplish them. Void acts are illegal acts or acts beyond the authority of the corporation. In contrast, voidable acts are ratifiable because the corporation can lawfully accomplish them if it does so in the appropriate manner.”
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.