Phar-Mor, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 1228 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Celotex Corporation Owens-Illinois Incorporated v. Rapid American Corporation (1997), Halper v. Halper (1999)
19 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1107 · 11 U.S.C. § 1109 · 28 U.S.C. § 1452 · 28 U.S.C. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 2075
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Matter of Wood v. P Wood & Pa · Rufo v. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail · Brooklier v. United States · Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'may seem strange' to allow a corporation to pierce its own veil, 'since [such a corporation] cannot claim to be either a creditor that was deceived or defrauded by the corporate fiction, or an involuntary tort creditor[,]' ... in New Jersey and in other states , 'piercing the corporate veil and alter ego actions are allow to prevent unjust or inequitable results'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A party in interest, including the debtor, the trustee, a creditors’ committee, an equity security holders’ committee, a creditor, an equity security holder, or any indenture trustee, may raise and may appear and be heard on any issue in a case under this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actions by a creditor to pierce the corporate veil, or alter ego actions against the debtor corporation, are often considered non-core, 'related-to' proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.