LaFond v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Delgado Oil Co. v. Torres (1986), Lowell Staats Mining Co. v. Pioneer Uravan, Inc. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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 Page v. Clark · 39 Colo. App. 84 - Rosebud Corp. v. Boggio · Fink v. Montgomery Elevator Company of Colorado · 30 Colo. App. 428 - Klipfel v. Neill · Isbill Associates, Inc. v. City & County of Denver
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not disturb the trial court's decision merely because it assigned one incorrect reason for it”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““A corporate entity may be disregarded and corporate directors may be held personally liable if equity so requires.... If adherence to the corporate fiction would promote injustice, protect fraud, defeat a legitimate claim, or defend crime, the invocation of equitable principles for the imposition of personal liability may occur.” (emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Cooper · Martin v. Freeman“If adherence to the corporate fiction would promote injustice, protect fraud, defeat a legitimate claim, or defend erime, the invocation of equitable principles for the imposition of personal liability may occur. [[Image here]] [And] to allow a director to hide behind the cloak of the corporation would promote injustice in that it would allow the actions of a director who used assets of a corporation for his personal gain to defeat the valid claim of a creditor.”
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.