Farmers Warehouse of Pelham, Inc. v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably NEC Technologies, Inc. v. Nelson (1996), 186 Ga. App. 320 - Amason v. Whitehead (1988)
13 federal appellate · 38 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 Hudson v. Hudson · Exchange Bank v. Macon Construction Co. · 87 Ga. App. 469 - Condenser Service & Engineering Co. v. Brunswick Port Authority · Lawton v. Byck · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Central Trust Co.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the subsidiary is a mere instrumentality of the parent, 'that the separate personalities of the corporations and the owners no longer exist; and to adhere to the doctrine of corporate entity would promote injustice or protect fraud.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]llegations that [multiple] corporations have been operated as one business with common ownership, common management, common personnel, and with joint bank accounts and joint profit and loss statements, and that defendants were the sole officers, directors, and stockholders of the ... corporations ... would be factors to consider in disregarding the corporate fiction as between the ... separate corporate entities and treating them as one, but are not sufficient to establish that there is such unity of interest as between the corporations and the defendants to treat them as one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to observe (the corporate entity) would be to work an injustice.”
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.