511 So. 2d 336 - Steinhardt v. Banks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Patin, Hillsborough Holdings Corp. v. Celotex Corp. (In Re Hillsborough Holdings Corp.) (1994)
1 federal appellate · 13 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 450 So. 2d 1114 - Dania Jai-Alai Palace, Inc. v. Sykes · Advertects, Inc. v. Sawyer Industries · 421 So. 2d 728 - Vantage View, Inc. v. Bali East Development Corp. · ROBERTS'FISH FARM v. Spencer · 47 So. 2d 769 - Riley v. Fatt
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employed by the stockholders for fraudulent or misleading purposes,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every corporation is organized as a business organization to create a legal entity that can do business in its own right and on its own credit as distinguished from the credit and assets of individual stockholders. The mere fact that one or two individuals own and control the stock structure of a corporation does not lead inevitably to the conclusion that the corporate entity is a fraud or that it is necessarily the alter ego of its stockholders. ... If this were the rule, it would completely destroy the corporate entity as a method of doing business and it would ignore the historical justification for the corporate enterprise system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere device or sham to accomplish some ulterior purpose,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.