53 F. Supp. 2d 1007 - Technic Engineering, Ltd. v. Basic Envirotech, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 125 Ill. 2d 348 - Brown v. Tenney · Beach v. Miller
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.
“When a corporation becomes insolvent, its assets are regarded as a trust fund for the payment of its creditors; and the directors, who are the agents or trustees of the stockholders during the solvency of the corporation, occupy a fiduciary relation towards the creditors when the corporation becomes insolvent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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