619 So. 2d 1342 - Backus v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2014
10 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 Cohen v. Williams · Irwin v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. · Whisman v. Alabama Power Co. · 331 So. 2d 257 - McGruder v. B & L Construction Company, Inc. · 496 So. 2d 8 - Robinson v. Hamilton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "fraud in asserting the corporate existence or . . . that recognition of the corporate existence [would] result in injustice or inequitable consequences.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Backus’s present action against [the shareholder] Watson was based on a cause of action entirely different from the one on which her action against the club was based, and in the present action she sought to litigate an issue that was not litigated, and could not have been litigated, under the pleadings in her action against the club, even though Watson appeared at the trial of that action and apparently participated in the club’s defense. The litigation of the central issue presented in this action— whether the club was operated as Watson’s alter ego and, therefore, whether the “corporate veil” should be pierced— has not been foreclosed by a previous judgment binding as between these parties. Therefore, the trial court could not have properly relied on the doctrine of res judicata as a basis for its judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘ “Piercing the corporate veil is not a power that is lightly exercised. The concept that a corporation is a legal entity existing separate and apart from its shareholders is well settled in this state. Co-Ex Plastics, Inc. v. AlaPak, Inc., 536 So.2d 37 (Ala.1988). Alorna Coat Corp. v. Behr, 408 So.2d 496 (Ala.1981). The mere fact that a party owns all or a majority of the stock of a corporation does not, of itself, destroy the separate corporate identity. Messick v. Moving, 514 So.2d 892 (Ala.1987); Forester & Jerue, Inc. v. Daniels, 409 So.2d 830 (Ala.1982).” ’ ””
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.