Tigrett v. Pointer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Castleberry v. Branscum (1986), Gibraltar Savings v. LDBrinkman Corp. (1988)
5 federal appellate · 35 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 Pepper v. Litton · Anderson v. Abbott · Pierce v. United States · Pace Corporation v. Jackson · International Bankers Life Insurance Co. v. Holloway
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'Inadequate capitalization by itself may not be a sufficient ground to pierce the corporate veil. Associates Dev. Corp. v. Air Control Products, Inc. , 392 S.W.2d 542 , 545 (Tex.Civ.App.-Austin, 1965, writ ref'd N.R.E.). Thus, a party who has contracted with a financially weak corporation and is disappointed in obtaining satisfaction of his claim cannot look to the dominant stockholder or parent corporation in the absence of additional compelling facts. Bell Oil Gas Co. v. Allied Chem. Corp. 431 S.W.2d 336 , 340 (Tex. 1968); Hanson Southwest Corp. v. Dal-Mac Construction Co. , 554 S.W.2d 712 , 717 (Tex.Civ.App.-Dallas 1977, writ ref'd N.R.E.). . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actual fraud usually involves dishonesty of purpose or intent to deceive, whereas constructive fraud is the breach of some legal or equitable duty which, irrespective of moral guilt, the law declares fraudulent because of its tendency to deceive others, to violate confidence, or to injure public interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Appellees would have us hold that resolutions in corporate minutes and entries in corporate books are effective, like a magic wand, to free the enterprise from the claims of its creditors.... This legal legerdemain should deceive no one.”
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.