39 Cal. 3d 290 - Mesler v. Bragg Management Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 768 - People v. Christian S. (1994), 46 Cal. 3d 796 - Far West Financial Corp. v. D & S Company (1988)
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 192 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 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 14 Cal. 3d 831 - Estate of McDill · 2 Cal. 3d 956 - Hinman v. Westinghouse Electric Co. · 47 Cal. 2d 792 - Automotriz Del Golfo De California v. Resnick · M/V American Queen v. San Diego Marine Contruction Corp.
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that there be such unity of interest and ownership that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individual no longer exist and (2) that, if the acts are treated as those of the corporation alone, an inequitable result will follow”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a request to amend has been denied, an appellate court is confronted by two conflicting policies. On the one hand, the trial court's discretion should not be disturbed unless it has been clearly abused; on the other, there is a strong policy in favor of liberal allowance of amendments. This conflict `is often resolved in favor of the privilege of amending, and reversals are common where the appellant makes a reasonable showing of prejudice from the ruling.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The alter ego doctrine arises when a plaintiff comes into court claiming that an opposing party is using the corporate form unjustly and in derogation of the plaintiff's interests. [Citation.] In certain circumstances the court will disregard the corporate entity and will hold the individual shareholders liable for the actions of the corporation ....”
2 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.