Auer v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Dewitt Truck Brokers, Inc. v. W. Ray Flemming Fruit Co. (1976), Kasel v. Remington Arms Co. (1972)
2 federal appellate · 86 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 Minton v. Cavaney · 47 Cal. 2d 792 - Automotriz Del Golfo De California v. Resnick · Richter v. Walker · 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh · 20 Cal. 2d 839 - Stark v. Coker
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The two basic requirements for the application of this doctrine are: (1) that there be such unity of interest and ownership that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individual no longer exist, and (2) that, if the acts are treated as those of the corporation alone, an inequitable result will follow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“necessarily vary according to the circumstances of each case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is particularly within the province of the trial court”
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.