Ruiz v. ExCello Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2005
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 Abrahamsen v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 288 F. Supp. 817 - Kloberdanz v. Joy Manufacturing Company · Colorado Springs Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Albrecht · Beaver Park Co. v. Hobson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule, one of non-liability, and the traditional exceptions to that rule are as follows: “where one company sells or otherwise transfers all its assets to another company the latter is not liable for the debts and liabilities of the transferor, except where: (1) the purchaser expressly or impliedly agrees to assume such debts; (2) the transaction amounts to a consolidation or merger of the seller and purchaser; (3) the purchasing corporation is merely a continuation of the selling corporation; or (4) the transaction is entered into fraudulently in order to escape liability for such debts.” Klober-danz v. Joy Manufacturing Co., 288 F.Supp. 817 (D.Colo.1968).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order that a promise may be implied on the part of a corporation to pay the debts of another corporation, to the property and franchises of which it has succeeded by valid purchase, the conduct relied upon must show such an intention.”
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.