Camp v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “"The general rule in Louisiana, as in other states, is that an individual may incorporate his business for the sole purpose of escaping individual liability for corporate debts. This is often a primary or solitary reason for incorporation, but as long as the corporate existence is maintained intact, immunity from liability of a majority shareholder or even a sole shareholder is the same as if there were a multiplicity of shareholders. "Exceptions to this general rule exist where a shareholder has practiced fraud upon a person through a corporation and where a shareholder disregards the corporate entity to such an extent that the separate individualities of the corporation and its shareholders have ceased to exist, so that the corporation is merely the alter ego of the shareholder or shareholders. "In the present case, there has been no suggestion that Hughes has perpetrated a fraud or that he has disregarded the corporate entity of any of the three corporations owned by him. No basis has been advanced or foundation established for permitting the defendant to pierce the corporate veil and to prove that John R. Hughes, individually, is the real party in interest and Hughes Realty Company merely a nominal plaintiff." (footnotes omitted).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 342 So. 2d 1186 - Sampay v. Davis · 351 So. 2d 184 - Johansen v. Port Jewell Inc.