Barnes v. Liebig’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 450 So. 2d 1114 - Dania Jai-Alai Palace, Inc. v. Sykes (1984), Molinos Valle Del Cibao, C. por A. v. Lama (2011)
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. · McCaskill Company v. United States · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Watson · Davis v. Alexander · Hagen v. Viney
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`When the conception of corporate entity is employed to defraud creditors, to evade an existing obligation, to circumvent a statute, * * * the courts will draw aside the web of entity, * * * and will do justice between real persons. This is particularly true in courts of equity, but finds many illustrations in courts of law as well, for it must not be thought that "Our Lady of the Common Law,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is apparent then that the theory of a subordinate or servient corporation being controlled by and being liable to a superior or dominant corporation for its acts, so that the latter could be held liable in an action at law for the negligence of the former, is in force in this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]t is well settled that the legal fiction of distinct corporate existence may be disregarded in a case where a corporation is so organized and controlled, and its affairs are so conducted as to make it merely an instrumentality or adjunct of another corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.