Sautbine v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Hutchinson v. Pfeil (1997), 718 F. Supp. 260 - Mobil Oil Corporation v. Linear Films, Inc. (1989)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 State Corp. Commission v. Federal Power Commission · Litchfield v. Crane · Gordon v. Aztec Brewing Co. · Charles E. Harding Co. v. Harding · Patterson v. Saunders
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctrine [of piercing the corporate veil] has been amplified to allow application not only for fraud or wrong, but also in cases where the facts require the court to disregard the separate existence of the corporation and the shareholders in order to protect the rights of third persons and accomplish justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough equity may be invoked to protect an existing right, it is unavailable to create a right where none exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equity cannot ... assist plaintiffs to escape from circumstances created by fault of their privies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutchinson v. Pfeil
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.