Caldwell v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Wyoming Construction Co. v. Western Casualty & Surety Co. (1960), Amfac Mechanical Supply Co. v. Federer (1982)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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 Minifie v. Rowley · Donovan v. Purtell · In re Muncie Pulp Co. · McDonnell v. Improvement District No. 145 · People Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Michigan Bell Telephone 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[that the legal entity of a corporation will be disregarded whenever the recognition thereof in a particular case will lead to injustice, has been announced so frequently that it is hardly necessary to cite the authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]oth law and equity, when necessary to circumvent fraud, protect the rights of third persons, and accomplish justice, disregard the distinct existence and treat [a corporation and the persons composing it] as identical.”
1 later decision 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.