51 Cal. 2d 574 - Riddle v. Leuschner’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Minton v. Cavaney (1961), Associated Vendors, Inc. v. Oakland Meat Co. (1962)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 47 Cal. 2d 792 - Automotriz Del Golfo De California v. Resnick · 20 Cal. 2d 839 - Stark v. Coker · Minifie v. Rowley · Gordon v. Aztec Brewing Co. · Hotaling v. Hotaling
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that Mrs. Leuschner had one share of ... stock is sufficient to hold her personally liable to creditors of that corporation provided that the alter ego doctrine is otherwise applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“managing employee of the two companies, and his control over their affairs must be treated as that which would be exercised by a managing agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was actually a housewife ... who had little knowledge of the affairs of the corporation ... and who only did the bidding of her husband....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.