Gurnik v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Winkler v. V.G. Reed & Sons, Inc. (1994), Herremans v. Carrera Designs, Inc. (1998)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Die & Mold, Inc. v. Western · Orloff v. Allman · Chicago Florsheim Shoe Store Co. v. Cluett, Peabody & Co. · United States v. Van Diviner · Licocci v. Cardinal Associates, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the corporation was so ignored, controlled or manipulated that it was merely the instrumentality of another, and that the misuse of the corporate form would constitute a fraud or promote injustice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“all amounts at which the labor or service rendered is recompensed, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece, or commission basis, or in any other method of calculating such amount.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“something akin to the wages paid on a regular periodic basis for regular work done by the employee.”
4 later decisions 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.