Workman v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably McClellen v. Dobberstein (1973), Dixon v. Reconciliation, Inc. (1980)
34 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 Rettinger ex rel. Standard Oil Co. v. Pierpont · Workman v. Workman · Workman v. Workman · Wolfe v. Mendel · Peters v. Woodmen Accident and Life Company
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A court of equity will not permit mere corporate forms to serve as a cloak and a shield to the perpetration of a fraud, but will examine the whole transaction, looking through corporate forms to the substance of things, to protect the rights of innocent parties, or to circumvent fraud.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`must not be guess work or conjecture but must be rational and logical deductions from the facts and circumstances from which they are inferred....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An action of conspiracy sounds essentially in tort. . . . The principle [sic] element of conspiracy is an agreement or understanding between two or more persons to inflict a wrong against or injury upon another. It involves some mutual mental action coupled with an intent to commit the act which results in injury. Without the sciénter persons cannot conspire.”
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.