Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2024
1 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 80th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Coker v. Coker · Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp. · Cincinnati Life Insurance Co. v. Cates
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] successor business that purchases only the assets of another business is not subject to liability for harm caused by defective products sold commercially by the predecessor unless: (1) in acquiring the assets, the successor agrees to assume liability; (2) the acquisition results from a fraudulent conveyance to escape liability or the debts or liabilities of the predecessor; (3) the acquisition constitutes a consolidation or merger with the predecessor; or (4) the acquisition results in the successor becoming a continuation of the predecessor. Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Gordon, 16 S.W.3d 127, 134 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2000, pet. denied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A disposition of any, all, or substantially all, of the property and assets of a corporation ... except as otherwise expressly authorized by another statute, does not make the acquiring corporation, foreign corporation, or other entity responsible or liable for any liability or obligation of the selling corporation that the acquiring corporation, foreign corporation, or other entity did not expressly assume.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Texas strongly embraces the non-liability rule. To impose liability for a predecessor’s torts, the successor corporation must have expressly assumed liability.” Tex Bus. Corp. Act art. 5.10(B)(2). The statute protects both Texas corporations and foreign corporations. Lockheed, 16 S.W.3d at 139 . 11 . Brewton argues he presented special appearance evidence which shows that the asset transfer was a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shapolsky v. Brewton
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.