Salt Lake City Corp. v. James Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Amica Mutual Insurance Co. v. Schettler (1989), Gillmor v. Wright (1993)
3 district · 33 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 47 Cal. 2d 792 - Automotriz Del Golfo De California v. Resnick · Zions First National Bank, N.A. v. National American Title Insurance Co. · Franklin Financial v. New Empire Development Co. · Colman v. Colman · 16 Utah 2d 30 - Thompson v. Ford Motor Company
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) there [was] such unity of interest and ownership that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individual no longer exist, viz., the corporation is, in fact, the alter ego of one or a few individuals; and (2) the observance of the corporate form would sanction a fraud, promote injustice, or an inequitable result would follow.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]rial court is not inexorably bound by its own precedents....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“any order or other form of decision, however designated, which adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties ... is subject to revision at any time before the entry of judgment adjudicating all the claims and the rights and liabilities of all the parties.”
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.