Alman v. Danin’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 1 · 1986
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America v. Pleasant Street Corporation United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (1992), Intergen N.V. v. Grina (2003)
28 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Allen v. McCurry · Montana v. United States · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Hansberry v. Lee
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be said to attach great weight to corporate form”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a corporate entity may be disregarded in the interest of public convenience, fairness and equity.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [F]ederal courts will look closely at the purpose of the federal statute to determine whether the statute places importance on the corporate form ... an inquiry that usually gives less respect to the corporate form than does the strict common law alter ego doctrine....”
3 later decisions 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.