Hames v. Cravens

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a shareholder’s derivative suit is an equity action maintainable in chancery court
• “[A] shareholder may sue in- dividually in an action to enforce that shareholder’s voting rights, to compel the payment of dividends, or to protect minority share- holders.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Combs v. Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-09-08· cited 50×
• Ghegan & Ghegan, Inc. v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-06-03· cited 50×
• Cotten v. Fooks
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-09-27· cited 49×
• Grine v. Board of Trustees
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-10-14· cited 42×
• Farm Bureau Insurance Co. of Arkansas, Inc. v. Running M Farms, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-06-01· cited 36×
• Golden Tee, Inc. v. Venture Golf Schools, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-05-14· cited 31×
• Weltzin v. Nail
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-10-11· cited 29×
• Arndt v. First Interstate Bank of Utah N.A.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-09-24· cited 25×
• Cummings v. Big Mac Mobile Homes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-11-19· cited 23×
• Austin v. Centerpoint Energy Arkla
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-02-02· cited 22×
• King v. Whitfield
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-11-18· cited 20×
• Chubb Lloyds Insurance Co. v. Miller County Circuit Court, Third Division
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-03-11· cited 20×
• Jewell v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-12-10· cited 17×
• Key v. Coryell
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2004-06-02· cited 16×
• Woodend v. Southland Racing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-05-06· cited 16×
• Prince v. Ark. State Highway Comm'n
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-06-06· cited 15×
• Smith v. Cooper (In Re Cooper)
  E.D. Arkansas· 2009-01-13· cited 12×
• Chambers v. Stern
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-07-08· cited 11×
• Lewis v. Spivey (In Re Spivey)
  W.D. Arkansas· 2010-11-22· cited 8×
• GLFP, LTD. v. CL Management, Ltd.
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2007-04-19· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Ross v. Bernhard
  Supreme Court· 1969-11-10· cited 1,046×
• Crosby v. Beam
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1989-12-20· cited 181×
• Deitsch v. Tillery
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-05-26· cited 80×
• Thomas v. Dickson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-17· cited 65×
• Battle v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-03-13· cited 62×
• Schumacher v. Schumacher
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-05-07· cited 51×
• Clarence v. Watson v. Woodrow C. Button
  Ninth Circuit· 1956-06-22· cited 48×
• Neal v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-04-18· cited 46×
• Brown v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-11-06· cited 46×
• Richards v. Bryan
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1994-08-12· cited 45×
• Alexander v. Flake
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-10-30· cited 41×
• Wiseman v. Batchelor
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-11-08· cited 38×
• Mid-South Beverages, Inc. v. Forrest City Grocery Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-10-23· cited 33×
• LINDER BY AND THROUGH LINDER v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-10-10· cited 31×
• Atkinson v. Marquart
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-10-23· cited 29×
• Johnson v. Gilbert
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1980-09-19· cited 29×
• Beam v. Monsanto Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1976-02-09· cited 24×
• Taylor v. Terry
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-04-18· cited 23×
• Brandon v. Brandon Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-09-25· cited 21×
• Hikita v. Nichiro Gyogyo Kaisha, Ltd.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-01-17· cited 20×