Aronson v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Freeland v. Enodis Corp. (2008), Reed v. Reid (2012)
8 federal appellate · 28 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 HINDS, ETC. v. McNAIR · Winkler v. V.G. Reed & Sons, Inc. · 162 Ind. App. 470 - Sheraton Corp. of Am. v. Kingsford Packing Co., Inc. · Harris v. United States · Gurnik v. Lee
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) undercapitalization; (2) absence of corporate records; (3) fraudulent representation by corporation shareholders or directors; (4) use of the corporation to promote fraud, injustice or illegal activities; (5) payment by the corporation of individual obligations; (6) commingling of assets and affairs; (7) failure to observe required corporate formalities; or (8) other shareholder acts or conduct ignoring, controlling, or manipulating the corporate form.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because of the bedrock nature of the principle of limited shareholder liability, the burden on a party seeking to pierce the corporate veil is severe. Such a party may only recover from a shareholder if the party proves by a preponderance of the evidence that [ (1) ] the corporate form was so ignored, controlled or manipulated that it was merely the instrumentality of another and [ (2) ] that the misuse of the corporate form would constitute a fraud or promote injustice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“assumed business name filing requirement”
2 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.