Roberts v. Alabama Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, under the business judgment rule, courts must respect a corporation’s decision made “in good faith and after a thorough investigation” to reject a shareholder-plaintiffs derivative claims
• finding that a “Special Committee consist[ing] of two lawyers with unquestioned reputations for integrity . . . neither of whom were dependent on the Company for their livelihood” was independent
• adopting same approach as Auerbach court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Houle v. Low
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-05· cited 63×
• Elgin v. Alfa Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-04-17· cited 51×
• In Re UnitedHealth Group Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-08-14· cited 41×
• Boland v. Boland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-10-31· cited 38×
• Hensley v. Poole
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-04-08· cited 27×
• 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×
• Finley v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2000-06-22· cited 19×
• Balwin County Electric v. Catrett
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2006-05-05· cited 17×
• Michaud v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-06-12· cited 14×
• LeVanger v. HIGHLAND ESTATES PROPERTIES OWNERS ASSOCIATION
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-11-06· cited 12×
• Davis v. Dorsey
  M.D. Alabama· 2007-07-06· cited 9×
• McLaughlin v. Pannell Kerr Forster
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-07-26· cited 7×
• Palmer v. U.S. Savings Bank of America
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1989-02-06· cited 6×
• Greenfield v. Hamilton Oil Corp.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1988-07-21· cited 5×
• Ex parte Caribe Resort Condominium Association Board of Directors PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS: (In re: Robert Simmons v. Caribe Resort Condominium Association Board of Directors) (Baldwin Circuit Court: CV-22-900789).
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2024-12-13
• Ex parte John Cassimus PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (In re: Jason T. Carrick and Ryan McAllister v. John Cassimus) (Shelby Circuit Court: CV-22-900278).
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2025-03-07
• Ex parte Jason T. Carrick and Ryan McAllister PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (In re: Jason T. Carrick and Ryan McAllister v. John Cassimus) (Shelby Circuit Court: CV-22-900278).
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2025-03-07
• Lisa Moore Haywood n/k/a Lisa Moore v. Carl Ray Haywood
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2025-09-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United Copper Securities Co. v. Amalgamated Copper Co.
  Supreme Court· 1917-05-21· cited 192×
• Maldonado v. Flynn
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1980-03-18· cited 44×
• Gall v. Exxon Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1976-07-30· cited 37×
• Genzer v. Cunningham
  E.D. Michigan· 1980-09-26· cited 34×
• FIRST ALABAMA BANK, ETC. v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-03-07· cited 30×
• Maher v. Zapata Corp.
  S.D. Texas· 1980-05-27· cited 20×
• Abbey v. Control Data Corp.
  D. Minnesota· 1978-12-07· cited 8×