James v. James

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that letters from minority shareholder and his attorney, even if not sufficient to constitute demands for suit, supported the conclusion “that any further demand would be futile”
• a minority shareholder cannot parlay a wrong committed primarily against the corporation, which gives rise to a derivative claim only, into a personal recovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robbins v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-04-30· cited 20×
• Balwin County Electric v. Catrett
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2006-05-05· cited 17×
• Robbins v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-10-21· cited 13×
• Altrust Financial Services, Inc. v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 13×
• Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd. v. City of Pelham
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2003-02-28· cited 11×
• Davis v. Dorsey
  M.D. Alabama· 2007-07-06· cited 9×
• Sharpe v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage (In Re Sharpe)
  N.D. Alabama· 2010-01-26· cited 8×
• Perdue ex rel. Perdue v. Callan Associates, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2011-09-09· cited 5×
• RREF RB-AL SLDL, LLC v. Saxon Land Development
  M.D. Alabama· 2013-09-05· cited 3×
• Hudman v. Wesson
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2001-02-16· cited 2×

Cites

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

• deHaas v. Empire Petroleum Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1970-12-22· cited 138×
• Reynolds v. First Alabama Bank of Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-04-19· cited 94×
• Eagerton v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-04-08· cited 89×
• Newton v. Hornblower, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-07-21· cited 87×
• Lewis v. Graves
  Second Circuit· 1983-02-28· cited 82×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-05-11· cited 65×
• State Ex Rel. Payne v. Empire Life Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-08-19· cited 56×
• Shelby County Commission v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-05-25· cited 55×
• Elgin v. Alfa Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-04-17· cited 51×
• Ex Parte Horn
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-01-30· cited 50×
• MacOn County Com'n v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-01-05· cited 42×
• Mulder v. Mittelstadt
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1984-06-20· cited 37×
• Coupounas v. Morad
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-02-22· cited 33×
• Bell v. the Birmingham News Co.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1991-02-06· cited 32×
• Fulton v. Callahan
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-04-16· cited 25×
• Stallworth v. AmSouth Bank of Alabama
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-12-19· cited 25×
• Shelton v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-01-13· cited 25×
• Bouldin v. City of Homewood
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-02-04· cited 24×
• Pegram v. Hebding
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1995-08-11· cited 23×
• Burt v. Burt Boiler Works, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-06-30· cited 23×