Orloff v. Allman’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 904 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Nos. 90-2039, 90-2040 (1992), Hollinger
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 77O (§ 15 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78T (§ 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc · Smith v. Harmsen · Cosoff v. Rodman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“kind of 'inequitable' result that makes alter ego liability appropriate is an abuse of the corporate form, such as undercapitalization or misrepresentation of the corporate structure to creditors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual power or influence over the alleged controlled person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brady v. Dairy Fresh Products Co P Brady · Ronald P. Brady Vincent Lombardo Allen Larson Erling Schlak Karl Schlak Henry Jessen Robert W. Brady Terrain, Inc., a North Dakota Corporation Gerner, Inc., a North Dakota Corporation Triple J Farms, Inc., a Wyoming Corporation v. Dairy Fresh Products Co., a California Corporation Sylvester Feichtinger Escondido Valley Poultry Association Demler Farms, Inc., a California Corporation, Ronald P. Brady, an Individual Robert W. Brady, an Individual Karl R. Schlak, an Individual Terrain, Inc., a North Dakota Corporation Erling O. Schlak, an Individual Gerner, Inc., a North Dakota Corporation Henry Jessen, an Individual Evelyn Jessen, an Individual Triple J Farms, a Wyoming Corporation Allen D. Larson, an Individual Vincent Lombardo, an Individual v. Bennett Little, an Individual Harold O. Wright, an Individual Dairy Fresh Products Co., a California Corporation Demler Farms, Inc., a California Corporation Sylvester Feichtinger, Individually and as Trustee of the Maria Feichtinger Family Trust the Escondido Poultry Association“within the meaning of section 20(a) of the Securities Act, 15 U.S.C. § 78t(a). The statute provides: 4 Every person who, directly or indirectly, controls any person liable under any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation thereunder shall also be liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such controlled person ... is liable, unless the controlling person acted in good faith and did not directly or indirectly induce the act or acts constituting the violation or cause of action. 5 The district court went on to say that the Ninth Circuit had held a”
1 later decision 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.