Hicks v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order to warrant piercing the corporate veil, the courts generally require the presence of one or more of the following factual situations: (1) evidence that the corporate entity amounts to a fraud, promotes injustice or it is relied on to justify a wrong, (2) that it was inadequately capitalized, (3) that an individual controls and manages the entity in such a manner that it becomes his alter ego, and (4) that the corporate formalities were not adhered to by the corporation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford-Strauss Properties, Inc. v. Sagebrush Sales Co.

2. ““One without knowledge of the object and purpose of a conspiracy cannot be a co-conspirator; he cannot agree, either expressly or tacitly, to the commission of a wrong which he knows not of.... And, of course, one without knowledge of a conspiratorial plan or scheme to injure another by the commission of a particular wrong cannot share the intent to injure such other.” Schlumberger Well Sur. Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp., 435 S.W.2d 854, 857 (Tex.1968).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cass v. Jones (In Re Jones)

3. “[E]ach case involving disregard of the corporate entity must rest upon its own special facts....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards Company, Inc. v. Monogram Industries, Inc., Monotronics, Inc. And Entronic Company