Bauer v. Pounds’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
4
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. United States · A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. · Berry v. Loiseau · State v. Avcollie · Patterson v. V & M Auto Body
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of d/b/a or 'doing business as’ to associate a tradename with the corporation using it does not create a legal entity separate from the corporation but is merely descriptive of the corporation.”); 8 Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations § 3831 (revised ed. 1992 & Supp.1999) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It appears well settled that the use of a fictitious or assumed business name does not create a separate legal entity ... [and that] [t]he designation [d/b/a] ".. .is merely descriptive of the person or corporation who does business under some other name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.