Dearth v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.3d 931 · 2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Helm v. Kansas (2011), Butler v. Candlewood Road Partners, LLC (In re Raymond) (2015)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Busby v. City of Orlando · U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) “that [Debtor’s] disregard of the corporate entity made it a mere instrumentality for the transaction of [his] own affairs;” (2) “that there is such unity of interest and ownership that the separate personalities of the corporation and [Debtor] no longer exist;” and (3) “To adhere to the doctrine of corporate identity would promote injustice or fraud.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“employees whose actions would constitute a violation of the-Act, regardless of whether the employer is a public company or a private company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be brought against only the employer and not against an individual employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Biando
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.