Modesto City Schools v. Riso Kagaku Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• utilizing \`a common sense appraisal of economic relationships'\ in determining existence of agency relationship between parent and subsidiary
• noting twenty percent of parent's products were sold through subsidiary which acted as parent's \sole conduit for marketing and selling its products in the United States\
• utilizing “ ‘a common sense appraisal of economic relationships’ ” in determining existence of agency relationship between parent and subsidiary
• noting twenty percent of parent’s products were sold through subsidiary which acted as parent’s “sole conduit for marketing and selling its products in the United States”
• exercising personal jurisdiction where subsidiary’s board members were directors of parent corporation
• Unocal Corp. does not require plaintiff to show that a parent controls all of a subsidiary's day-to-day activities in order to satisfy the general agency test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re Automobile Antitrust Cases I & II
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-12-22· cited 58×
• Acorn v. Household International, Inc.
  N.D. California· 2002-06-21· cited 38×
• In Re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Litig.
  D. Nevada· 2009-02-26· cited 28×
• In Re Automobile Antitrust Cases I and II
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-12-22· cited 21×
• Barantsevich v. VTB Bank
  C.D. California· 2013-05-29· cited 17×
• Bauman v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-08-28· cited 13×
• Kentucky Speedway, LLC v. National Ass'n of Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc.
  E.D. Kentucky· 2006-01-27· cited 13×
• Chapman v. Krutonog
  D. Hawaii· 2009-02-13· cited 9×
• In Re Phenylpropanolamine (Ppa) Products Liab. Lit.
  W.D. Washington· 2003-01-13· cited 7×
• Synopsys, Inc. v. Ricoh Company, Ltd.
  N.D. California· 2003-09-22· cited 7×
• Alvis v. Glaxosmithkline
  W.D. Washington· 2003-01-13· cited 1×
• Arandell Corp. v. Xcel Energy, Inc.
  D. Nevada· 2009-02-26· cited 1×