United States v. Fidelity Capital Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 827 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Alpine View Company Limited, Jones v. Childers (1994)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 661 (Preferred Surety Bond Guarantee Program Act of 1988) · 15 U.S.C. § 681 · 15 U.S.C. § 682 · 15 U.S.C. § 684 · 15 U.S.C. § 685 · 15 U.S.C. § 686 · 15 U.S.C. § 687 · 15 U.S.C. § 687B
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Bibby v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Lacy · Jones v. Childers“The mere fact that a person owns and controls a corporation will not justify a finding of abuse of the corporate entity, even though that person may have used the corporation to promote his own ends.... More evidence of abuse, such as evidence that the controlling person commingled the corporation's assets with his own or those of other corporations he controlled, or that he failed to maintain corporate records separately, is essential. Abuse of the corporate form occurs when the owner of the corporation conducts his private and corporate business on an interchangeable or joint basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the district court's findings of fact are 'plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety,' the court of appeals must accept them even if it is 'convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Childers
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.