29 Utah 2d 370 - Dockstader v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Cascade Energy & Metals Corp. v. Banks (1990), Colman v. Colman (1987)
3 district · 22 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 11 Utah 2d 389 - Charlton v. Hackett · 13 Utah 2d 133 - De Vas v. Noble · Geary v. Cain
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[olrdinarily a corporation is regarded as a legal entity, separate and apart from its stockholders.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“doctrine is generally applied to ... 'one-man corporations'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the term 'alter ego' is used to describe a situation where the courts go behind the corporate entity and hold a stockholder liable for the debts of the corporation”
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.