Griffith v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 607 So. 2d 97 - Greenlee v. Mitchell · 829 So. 2d 1216 - Boutwell v. Boutwell · 735 So. 2d 1109 - Carter v. Carter · 677 So. 2d 171 - Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. Jenkins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the case of a closely held corporation ..., the [chancery] court in its discretion may treat an action raising derivative claims as a direct action, exempt it from those restrictions and defenses applicable only to derivative actions, and order an individual recovery, if it finds that to do so will not (i) unfairly expose the corporation or the defendants to a multiplicity of actions, (ii) materially prejudice the interests of creditors of the corporation, or (iii) interfere with a fair distribution of the recovery among all interested persons.”
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.