Mainord v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2008
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Associates Transports, Inc. · C & C Tile Co. v. Independent Sch. Dist. No. 7 of Tulsa Cty. · Edgar v. Fred Jones Lincoln-Mercury of Oklahoma City, Inc. · Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. v. Goforth
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.
“The privilege of doing business in corporate form is granted by statute. This privilege carries many benefits including the limits on personal liability to the stockholders investment. One cannot simultaneously claim the benefits of corporate form and escape the liabilities of that insulation. No claim is made that the legal title to the alleged debt is not in the corporation or that the corporation is non-existent. As such it cannot be ignored. The real party in interest rule is designed to protect the defendant by insuring that the party with the legal right to sue brings the action. Oklahoma Wildlife Federation, Inc. v. Nigh, 513 P.2d 310 (Okl.1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the 'veil is pierced' only where the corporate entity is used to defeat public interests by protecting fraud, defending crime, or [for the] perpetration of other wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] shareholder ... has no title or legal right to the assets of the corporation .... [only] a proportionate share of the dividends, and assets on dissolution”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dicesare v. Stuart
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.