Centmont Corp. v. Marsch’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.2d 460 · 1933
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), My Bread Baking Co. v. Cumberland Farms, Inc. (1968)
14 federal appellate · 4 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Russell v. Place · Chicago St Ry Co v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'n · Ward v. Board of County Com'rs of Love County Okl · United States v. Reading Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is frequently stated in the following terms: ‘“(1) The legal fiction of distinct corporate existence will be disregarded, when necessary to circumvent fraud. (2) It may also be disregarded in a case where a corporation is so organized and controlled, and its affairs are so conducted, as to make it merely an instrumentality or adjunct of another corporation.’ In re Watertown Paper Co. (C.C.A.) 169 F. 252, 256 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.