Standage v. Standage’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Colman v. Colman (1987), Medlock v. Medlock (2002)
2 district · 45 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 United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Vallone v. Vallone · Neal v. Neal · 16 Ariz. App. 206 - Dietel v. Day · Cockrill v. Cockrill
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A basic axiom of corporate law is that a corporation will be treated as a separate entity unless there is sufficient reason to disregard the corporate form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alter ego or business conduit of a person,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.