Maley v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While corporate entities may be disregarded where they are made the implement for avoiding a clear legislative purpose, they will not be disregarded where those in control have deliberately adopted the corporate form in order to secure its advantages and where no violence to the legislative purpose is done by treating the corporate entity as a separate legal per son. Schenley Distillers Corporation v. United States, 326 U.S. 432, 437 , 66 S.Ct. 247, 249 , 90 L.Ed. 181, 184 (1946).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abbott Widdicombe v. McGuire

2. “Courts are reluctant to pierce the corporate veil and destroy the important fiction under which so much of the business of the country is conducted, and will do so only under such compelling circumstances as require such action to avoid protecting fraud, or defeating public or private rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. v. Vest Transportation Company, Inc., and Victory Towing Company, Inc. v. Switzerland General Insurance Corporation of New York