Dregne v. Five Cent Cab Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 86 Ill. 2d 188 - Main Bank of Chicago v. Baker (1981), Van Dorn Company v. Future Chemical and Oil Corporation Van Dorn Company a (1985)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Taylor v. Standard Gas & Electric Co. · Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. · Superior Coal Co. v. Department of Finance · Barham v. Gilbert · Beckett v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the ... corporation is merely a dummy or sham, the distinct corporate entity will be disregarded and the [shareholder and corporation] will be treated as one .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the corporation is so organized and controlled, and its affairs so conducted, as to make it a mere instrumentality of another corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.