Variable-Parameter Fixture Development Corp. v. Morpheus Lights, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2015
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin · Intercontinental Planning, Ltd. v. Daystrom Inc. · 39 Cal. 3d 290 - Mesler v. Bragg Management Co. · Kalb, Voorhis & Co. v. American Financial Corp. · GAF Corp. v. Johns-Manville Corp. (In Re Johns-Manville Corp.)
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[plaintiff] claims that as the alter ego of [the corporation], Richardson caused harm directly to [it].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“withdrawn the corporate funds available to satisfy a judgment for plaintiff,”
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.