Huff v. Harrell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2013
10 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 Castleberry v. Branscum · Gee v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. · T.O. Stanley Boot Co. v. Bank of El Paso · Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. McCardell · Houston First American Savings v. Musick
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A holder of share, an owner of any beneficial interest in shares, ... or any affiliate thereof or of the corporation shall be under no obligation to the corporation or to its obligees with respect to: any contractual obligation of the corporation or any matter relating to or arising from the obligation on the basis that the holder, owner, subscriber, or affiliate is or was the alter ego of the corporation, or on the basis of actual fraud or constructive fraud, a sham to perpetrate a fraud, or other similar theory, unless the obligee demonstrates that the holder ... did perpetrate an actual fraud on the obli-gee. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. State
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.