Giblin v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. (1987), Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co. (1986)
4 federal appellate · 13 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the trial court properly found the individual defendants liable for wrongful dissipation of Westwood assets. Plaintiff, pursuant to the pledge agreement, possessed a beneficial interest in Westwood's stock. The individual defendants, as directors and officers of Westwood, had a fiduciary duty to protect plaintiff's stock interest and were required to discharge that duty "in good faith and with that degree of care which an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances." Here plaintiff properly sued the individual defendants directly for their wrongful actions; their duty of care ran to plaintiff not only as directors of Westwood obliged to protect plaintiff's beneficial stock interest, but also as pledgors obliged to protect the pledge of Westwood's stock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“willful, wanton negligence with respect to its assets”
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.