Nix v. W.R. Grace & Co.—Conn.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a general assignment of claims by a corporation to its shareholders prior to the corporation’s dissolution does not preserve unasserted claims past the statutory windup period
• “A general assignment of claims by a corporation to its shareholders prior to the corporation’s dissolution does not preserve unasserted claims past the statutory wind-up period. To hold otherwise would be completely contrary to the purpose of corporate survival statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sturtevant v. Town of Winthrop
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1999-05-28· cited 46×
• Carter v. Harvey
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-29· cited 10×
• Martin K. Berks Environmental Attorneys Group, LLC, and Environmental Attorneys Group,P.C. v. Gregory A. Cade
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2014-06-27· cited 2×
• Regal Ware, Inc. v. CFJ Manufacturing, L.P. D/B/A CFJ Manufacturing and Collections Fine Jewelry, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2015-02-27

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Canadian Ace Brewing Co. v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-05-21· cited 38×
• Shute v. Chambers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-04-11· cited 37×
• MBC, INC. v. Engel
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1979-01-12· cited 37×
• Jenot v. White Mountain Acceptance Corp.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1984-04-09· cited 30×
• Bishop v. Schield Bantam Company
  N.D. Iowa· 1968-11-01· cited 27×
• Smith-Johnson Steamship Corporation v. United States
  D. Delaware· 1964-07-02· cited 26×
• Carmichael v. Halstead Nursing Center, Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-06-21· cited 24×
• Davis v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
  D. South Dakota· 1989-12-14· cited 24×
• Frederick Levy, Jr. v. Abraham M. Liebling
  Seventh Circuit· 1956-11-30· cited 17×
• Pace Industries, Inc. v. Three Phoenix Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-03-24· cited 14×
• Hutson v. Fulgham Industries, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-04-14· cited 13×
• Price v. United States
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1979-02-27· cited 11×
• Syrian Arabian Oil Company, Individually, and Formerly D/B/A Menhall Prospecting and Exploitation Company v. Syrian Arab Republic
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-05-30· cited 1×