Corker v. Soper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant devotes a large portion of his brief to the contention that the Laurens Company was a real corporation, validly organized and validly existing, and that, in view of the frankness with which the purpose to avoid liability was avowed, and the things to accomplish that purpose done, there is no warrant here for disregarding the corporate character of [the Laurens Company in order to hold its incorporators liable. “Appellant’s troubles do not arise from the fact that the corporate entity of the Laurens Company has been disregarded. The judgment of the court below fully recognized and gave effect to that entity. It found that, though it did in fact exist, it existed as a mere creature organized and maintained for the purpose of holding, not really, but as agent for appellant, the stock which he caused to be put in its name, that •appellant at all times remained the real owner of the shares, and that the law will look through the subterfuge of pretended ownership to fasten liability upon the shareholder to whom, in fact, the shares belong.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. Atkinson