Thomas Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
50 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 274 - Forsythe v. Clark USA, Inc. (2007), Torres-Negrn v. Merck & Company Inc
50 district · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · United States v. Bestfoods · Radio & Television Broadcast Technicians Local Union 1264 v. Broadcast Service of Mobile, Inc.
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross undercapitalization, failure to observe corporate formalities, nonpayment of dividends, insolvency of debtor corporation, siphoning of funds from the debtor corporation by the dominant stockholder, nonfunctioning of officers and directors, absence of corporate records, and whether the corporation is merely a facade for the operations of the dominant stockholder.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under existing legal rules, independent contractors and subsidiaries which are wholly or partially owned by a parent company are treated as separate employers or as a part of the parent or contracting company depending upon the degree of their independence from the parent. Some of the factors to be considered in making this determination are (i) common ownership, (ii) common directors and/or officers, (iii) de facto exercise of control, (iv) unity of personnel policies emanating from a common source, and (v) the dependency of operations.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere ownership of a subsidiary does not justify the imposition of liability on the parent.”
3 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.