Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Temporomandibular Joint Implants Products Liability Litigation Temporomandibular Joint Implant Recipients v. The Dow Chemical Company, Tabieros v. Clark Equipment Co. (1997)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · AgriStor Leasing v. Farrow · Tucker v. Paxson Machine Co. · A. D. Luster, A's Fishhouses, Inc. v. Retail Credit Company · Brockmann v. O'NEILL
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the purchaser expressly or impliedly has agreed to assume such liability; (2) the transaction amounts to a consolidation or merger; (3) the purchasing corporation is merely a continuation of the selling corporation; or (4) the transaction is entered into fraudulently to escape liability.”
5 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.