Galef v. Alexander

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• intimating that a director is “interested” for purposes of overriding directors’ refusal of plaintiffs’ Rule 23.1, demand and exercise of business judgment to terminate derivative lawsuit only if he authorized or participated in the alleged wrongdoing
• discussing with apparent approval rationale of cases holding that demand must be made even where all directors have been named as defendants
• “[T]here appears to be alleged a sufficient causal link between the claimed nondisclosures in the proxy statements and the elections which the statements sought to influence.” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,860 Athalie Doris Joy v. Nelson L. North, Nelson L. North
  Second Circuit· 1982-11-04· cited 388×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,357 Marbury Management, Inc., and Harry Bader, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees v. Alfred Kohn, and Wood, Walker & Co.
  Second Circuit· 1980-04-21· cited 256×
• Phillips v. Reed Group, Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2013-07-01· cited 177×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,000 Ora E. Gaines v. D. J. Haughton, Lois A. And James Fitzpatrick v. D. J. Haughton
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-07-10· cited 128×
• Unnamed case
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-06-20· cited 66×
• Markowitz v. Brody
  S.D. New York· 1981-05-20· cited 29×
• NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 2014-11-19· cited 16×
• Seidl v. American Century Companies, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2010-05-07· cited 14×
• Resolution Trust Corp. v. Gregor
  E.D. New York· 1994-12-01· cited 12×
• Lewis v. Anselmi
  S.D. New York· 1983-06-07· cited 10×
• In Re Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. Derivative Litigation
  S.D. New York· 1990-11-08· cited 9×
• Elfenbein v. American Financial Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1980-04-15· cited 9×
• Charlotte Kokocinski v. Arthur D. Collins, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-03-01· cited 9×
• Steinberg v. Mozilo
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-29· cited 4×
• Birmingham v. Sogen-Swiss International Corp. Retirement Plan
  S.D. New York· 1981-09-21· cited 3×
• Unnamed case
  Second Circuit· 1980-07-22
• Matter of Renren Inc. Derivative Litig. v. XXX
  New York Supreme Court· 2020-05-20

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
  Supreme Court· 1938-04-25· cited 18,491×
• Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-06-02· cited 8,668×
• Cort v. Ash
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-17· cited 3,337×
• Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,683×
• J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-08· cited 1,399×
• Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,218×
• Auerbach v. Bennett
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-07-09· cited 638×
• Smith v. Sperling
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-10· cited 488×
• Burks v. Lasker
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 435×
• Sola Electric Co. v. Jefferson Electric Co.
  Supreme Court· 1942-12-07· cited 386×
• United Copper Securities Co. v. Amalgamated Copper Co.
  Supreme Court· 1917-05-21· cited 192×
• Diamond v. Oreamuno
  New York Court of Appeals· 1969-05-15· cited 161×
• In Re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions. Joseph B. Kauffman
  First Circuit· 1973-05-14· cited 157×
• Lewis v. Anderson
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-10-29· cited 76×
• Cathedral Estates, Inc. v. The Taft Realty Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1955-12-06· cited 71×
• Galef v. Alexander
  Second Circuit· 1980-01-22· cited 67×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,310 Browning Debenture Holders' Committee v. Dasa Corporation and Arthur Andersen & Co.
  Second Circuit· 1975-10-03· cited 57×
• Swanson v. Traer
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-10· cited 56×
• Maldonado v. Flynn
  Second Circuit· 1979-03-15· cited 53×
• Hausman v. Buckley
  Second Circuit· 1962-02-13· cited 52×