93 F. Supp. 9 - Pergament v. Frazer’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1979 · most notably 56 Cal. 2d 823 - Empire Steel Corp. of Texas, Inc. v. Superior Court (1961), Velandra v. Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault (1964)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Lynch v. United States · Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co · United States v. Shaw · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · Peterson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There has been a change in the attitude of the courts towards this much debated and perplexing question that has been before our tribunals for years and there is a tendency now to cut through the maze of corporate appearances to arrive at the true status and relationship. The fiction of corporate entity is no longer controlling.””
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.