92 Md. App. 375 - Tafflin v. Levitt’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Adamson v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (2000), Strougo v. Bassini (2002)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 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 Felder v. Casey · Testa v. Katt · Flaherty v. Weinberg · Brandenburg v. Seidel · Parish v. Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for this rule is that the cause of action for injury to the property of a corporation or for impairment or destruction of its business is in the corporation, and such an injury, although it may diminish the value of the capital stock, is not primarily or necessarily a damage to the stockholder, and hence the stockholder’s derivative right can be asserted only through the corporation.”
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.