Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Frank v. U.S. West, Inc. (1993), Papa v. Katy Industries, Inc. (1999)
3 federal appellate · 21 district ·
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 Trevino v. Celanese Corp. · Armbruster v. Quinn · Dewitt Truck Brokers, Inc. v. W. Ray Flemming Fruit Co. · Baker v. Stuart Broadcasting Co. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Western Electric 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the parent could control the employment practices and decisions of the subsidiary. If the parent company hired and fired the subsidiary employees, routinely shifted them between the two companies, and supervised their daily operations, it would be hard to find that the parent was not their employer. Second, the parent might so dominate the subsidiary’s operations that the parent and the subsidiary are one entity and thus one employer. For example, the subsidiary may be highly integrated with the parent’s business operations, as evidenced by the commingling of finds and assets, the use of the same work force and business offices for both corporations, and the severe undercapitali-zation of the subsidiary. The parent might also fail to observe such basic corporate formalities as keeping separate books and holding separate shareholder and board meetings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent that the subservient corporation manifests no separate corporate interests of its own and functions solely to achieve the purposes of the dominant corporation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is expressed by the colorful metaphor of the corporate veil, which presumes that acts of the corporation are not acts of the shareholder.”
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.