White v. Jorgenson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 142 Wis. 2d 465 - Consumer's Co-Op of Walworth County v. Olsen (1988), Specialized Tours, Inc. v. Hagen (1986)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Victoria Elevator Co. of Minneapolis v. Meriden Grain Co. · West Concord Conservation Club, Inc. v. Chilson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nsufficient capitalization for purposes of corporate undertaking, failure to observe corporate formalities, nonpayment of dividends, insolvency of debtor corporation at time of transaction in question, siphoning of funds by dominant shareholder, nonfunctioning of other officers and directors, absence of corporate records, and existence of corporation as merely facade for individual dealings.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]isregard of the corporate entity requires not only that a number of these factors be present, but also that there be an element of injustice or fundamental unfairness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence that the corporate entity has been operated as a constructive fraud or in an unjust manner.”
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.