Ficor, Inc. v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Delgado Oil Co. v. Torres (1986), Lowell Staats Mining Co. v. Philadelphia Electric Co. (1989)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 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 Francis v. United Jersey Bank · Uptime Corp. v. Colorado Research Corp. · 39 Colo. App. 84 - Rosebud Corp. v. Boggio · Speer v. Dighton Grain, Inc. · Sutton v. Reagan & Gee
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The local law of the state of incorporation will be applied to determine the existence and extent of a director’s or officer’s liability to the corporation, its creditors and shareholders, except where, with respect to the particular issue, some other state has a more significant relationship____”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The directors of a corporation who vote for or assent to any distribution of assets of a corporation to its shareholders during the liquidation of the corporation without the payment and discharge of, or making adequate provision for, all known debts, obligations, and liabilities of the corporation shall be jointly and severally liable to the corporation for the value of such assets which are distributed, to the extent that such debts, obligations, and liabilities of the corporation are not thereafter paid and discharged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rights and duties between the corporation's directors and shareholders and the corporation's creditors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hillman · Wilmington Sec. v. Welch
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.