Naples v. Keystone Building & Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 21 district · 60 state decisions

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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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “adherence to the fiction of separate identity would only serve to defeat justice.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas Indus., Inc. v. City of Bristol · Chapco, Inc. v. Woodway USA, Inc.

2. “(1) [W]hether the practice, without necessarily having been previously considered unlawful, offends public policy as it has been established by statutes, the common law, or otherwise — in other words, it is within at least the penumbra of some common law, statutory, or other established concept of unfairness; (2) whether it is immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous; (3) whether it causes substantial injury to consumers, [competitors or other businesspersons].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 172 Conn. App. 746 - Papallo v. Lefebvre · 95 F. Supp. 3d 284 - Langan v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies

3. “[i]t is true that courts will disregard legal fictions, including that of a separate corporate entity, when they are used for fraudulent or illegal purposes. Unless something of the kind is proven, however, to do so is to act in opposition to the public policy of the state as expressed in legislation concerning the formation and regulation of corporations.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Girouard v. Cestaro (In re Cestaro) · 754 F. Supp. 2d 395 - Everspeed Enterprises Ltd. v. Skaarup Shipping Int'l