Topp v. Compair Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 830 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 41 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998), Media Duplication Services, Ltd. v. HDG Software, Inc. (1991)
22 federal appellate · 41 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co · Thomson v. Gaskill · Smith v. Sperling · Kelly v. United States Steel Corp.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the parent corporation exerts a high degree of control through ownership or otherwise, and even if the separateness is perhaps only formal, the subsidiary's place of business is controlling for diversity purposes if the corporate separation is real and carefully maintained.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“locus of the operations of the corporation”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] Location of corporate headquarters; [2] location of directors meetings; [3] location from where corporate income tax returns are filed; [4] location of corporate records; [5] location of principal bank accounts; [6] location of corporate personnel who direct the daily operations of the corporation; [7] place where major policy decisions are made; [8] place which is designated in the charter or other corporate documents as the official headquarters of the company.”
2 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.