Bj McAdams Inc v. F Dowden’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Greater Kansas City Laborers Pension Fund v. Superior General Contractors, Inc. (1997), Richardson v. United Parcel Service (1996)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Carnegie v. United States · Pepper v. Litton · United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc. · Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York · Morrison v. Olson
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.
“used as a subterfuge to defeat public convenience, to justify wrong, or to perpetuate a fraud”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a corporate form is challenged, “the real basis of liability is actual control and manipulation of the other, whether that control and manipulation be exercised by virtue of stock ownership or otherwise.” Constellation Development Corp. v. Dowden (In re B.J. McAdams, Inc.), 66 F.3d 931, 937 (8th Cir.1995) (quoting Henderson v. Rounds & Porter Lumber Co., 99 F.Supp. 376 (W.D.Ark.1951)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“bankruptcy trustee steps into the shoes of the debtor for purposes of asserting or maintaining the debtor's causes of action.”
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.