Spartech Corp. v. Opper’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 949 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Ampat/Midwest, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works Inc. (1990), Martin-Trigona v. Champion Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1989)
17 federal appellate · 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. § 1359
Relies on Rosado v. Wyman · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth · Navarro Savings Assn. v. Lee · Graf v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a common misunderstanding that the principle of limited liability protects the shareholders and officers of a corporation for liability for their own wrongful acts. It does not. It protects them from derivative liability, that is, from being called to account for the wrongs of the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A principal purpose of contracts and contract law is to allocate the risk of the unexpected in accordance with the parties' respective preference for or aversion to risk and their ability or inability to prevent the risk from materializing — not to place it always on the promisee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test for an indispensable party is whether justice cannot be done unless it is joined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wade v. Hopper
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.