Behradrezaee v. Dashtara’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2024
7 district · 9 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. · Ross v. Bernhard · Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. · Hawes v. Oakland · Aronson v. Lewis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directors' decisions will be respected by courts unless the directors are interested or lack independence relative to the decision, do not act in good faith, act in a manner that cannot be attributed to a rational business purpose or reach their decision by a grossly negligent process that includes the failure to consider all material facts reasonably available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in good faith and in the honest belief that the[ir] action taken was in the best interests of the company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“who performed services of little or no benefit to the corporation, thereby diverting profits”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.