Platt Corp. v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions

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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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Policy and equitable considerations weigh heavily in favor of rather than against the conclusion that the causes of action against the defendants did not become obliterated by the merger of the wronged corporation into another corporation. To hold that a merger generally would have the effect of destroying such causes of action would be tantamount to paving the way for deliberate corporate pilfering by management and then for the immunization of the guilty officers from liability therefor by their arranging for a merger or consolidation of the corporation into or with another corporation. So the causes of action here should be sustained . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Solomon v. Buckley

2. “This asset of Duraluminum, upon its merger with plaintiff [Chatham], automatically vested in plaintiff as the surviving corporation by virtue of the provisions of ... the Business Corporation Law. It may be said, under the construction given this statute, that nothing is lost by a merger of corporations and that any right lawfully belonging to any of the constituent corporations merged together can be asserted by the surviving corporation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 497 F. Supp. 573 - Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. v. Great American Insurance