Sonne v. Sacks’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2016
5 district · 8 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 Garden Check Cashing Service, Inc. v. First National City Bank · Damazo v. Wahby · McKee v. Rogers · EM Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. Int. · E. M. Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. International
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion, piercing the corporate veil may be done only in the Court of Chancery, when the purpose of the action is to obtain a judgment against individual stockholders or officers, or against other corporations which have received assets without consideration.””
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.