Hanson v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably My Bread Baking Co. v. Cumberland Farms, Inc. (1968), Carl Fisser and Martha Fisser, Co-Partners Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Fisser & v. Doornum, Libelants-Appellants v. International Bank (1960)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 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 New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering · Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. · Sexton v. Kessler & Co. · Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co. v. City of New York · Merrimac Chemical Co. v. Moore
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The right and the duty of courts to look beyond the corporate forms are exercised only for the defeat of fraud or wrong, or the remedying of injustice. In the present case we have a corporation formed without substantial capital, relying on borrowing money to make valuable a hotel that it was buying on credit. The plaintiff dealt with that corporation. There is nothing to show that he was deceived. The fair inference is that he knew the worthlessness of the corporation with which he contracted, and knew that his contract was of no value unless the corporation could borrow money . . .”
3 later decisions 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.