List of top 10 most-cited legal articles in corporate and securities law, by Saphiro in the United States

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Below is the ranking of the top 10 most-cited articles of all time to the speciality, according to “The most-cited law review articles of all time”, by Fred R. Shapiro and Michelle Pearse, published in the Michigan Law Review and available at ww.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/110/8/Shapiro_and_Pearse.pdf:

1. 1153 William L. Cary, Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections upon Delaware, 83 Yale L.J. 663 (1974).
2. 893 Frank H. Easterbrook & Daniel R. Fischel, The Proper Role of a Target’s Management in Responding to a
Tender Offer, 94 Harv. L. Rev. 1161 (1981).
3. 698 Ronald J. Gilson & Reinier H. Kraakman, The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency, 70 Va. L. Rev. 549
(1984).
4. 519 Ralph K. Winter, Jr., State Law, Shareholder Protection, and the Theory of the Corporation, 6 J. Legal Stud.
251 (1977).
5. 501 E. Merrick Dodd, Jr., For Whom Are Corporate Managers Trustees?, 45 Harv. L. Rev. 1145 (1932).
6. 471 Ronald J. Gilson, A Structural Approach to Corporations: The Case Against Defensive Tactics in
Tender Offers, 33 Stan. L. Rev. 819 (1981).
7. 432 Frank H. Easterbrook & Daniel R. Fischel, Corporate Control Transactions, 91 Yale L.J. 698 (1982).
8. (tie) 390 Janet Cooper Alexander, Do the Merits Matter? A Study in Settlements in Securities Class Actions, 43 Stan. L. Rev. 497 (1991).
8. (tie) 390 Margaret M. Blair & Lynn A. Stout, A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law, 85 Va. L. Rev. 247 (1999).
10. 375 Martin Lipton, Takeover Bids in the Target’s Boardroom, 35 Bus. Law. 101 (1979).