Barton v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Bodah v. Lakeville Motor Express, Inc. (2003), Fogie v. Thorn Americas, Inc. (1999)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 34 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 Hibbing Education Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board · Rathbun v. WT Grant Company · Royal Realty Co. v. Levin · Northern States Power Co. v. Franklin · Victoria Elevator Co. of Minneapolis v. Meriden Grain Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first prong focuses on the shareholder’s relationship to the corporation. Factors that are significant to the assessment of this relationship include whether there is insufficient capitalization for purposes of corporate undertaking, a failure to observe corporate formalities, nonpayment of dividends, insolvency of debtor corporation at time of transaction in question, siphoning of funds by dominant shareholder, non-functioning of other officers and directors, absence of corporate records, and existence of the corporation as merely a facade for individual dealings. The second prong requires showing that piercing the corporate veil is necessary to avoid injustice or fundamental unfairness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When reviewing a case dismissed pursuant to Minn. R. Civ. P. 12.02(e) for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted, the question before this court is whether the complaint sets forth a legally sufficient claim for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.