340 So. 2d 450 - Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(i)n order for a corporation to be accorded treatment as a separate legal entity, it must exist and function as such . . . . A court of equity looks through form to substance.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Secor v. Secor · Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company v. Hilary & Hogan Inc

2. “Defendant operated the corporation as his alter ego, intermingling the corporate funds with those of his own. There were no corporate meetings, minutes or records regularly kept except a bank account. Defendant was not paid a salary by the corporation but used funds in the corporate account as if they were his own. He failed to deposit thousands of dollars in corporate cash receipts and used such cash as his personal funds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2010 UT App 113 - JONES & TREVOR MARKETING, INC. v. Lowry

3. “[a] court of equity looks through form to substance and has often disregarded the corporate form when it was fiction in fact and deed and was merely serving the personal use and convenience of the owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 747 So. 2d 832 - A & L, INC. v. Grantham