Terren v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the lower court’s decision to allow veil-piercing upon a finding that corporate principals “diverged] corporate assets to their benefit when substantial notice of claims [against the corporation] were outstanding”
• “New Hampshire courts do not ‘hesitate to disregard the fiction of the corporation’ when circumstances would lead to an inequitable result.” (brackets omitted
• “New Hampshire courts do not ‘hesitate to disregard the fiction of the corporation’ when circumstances would lead to an inequitable result.” (brackets omitted
• that defendants were sole officers and shareholders of corporation and commingled corporate and personal assets was significant factor in decision to pierce corporate veil
• substantial depletion of corporate assets after learning about potential claim
• explaining the piercing the corporate veil doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Martinez v. Petrenko
  First Circuit· 2015-07-06· cited 139×
• LaMontagne Builders, Inc. v. Bowman Brook Purchase Group
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2003-11-24· cited 37×
• Norwood Group, Inc. v. Phillips
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2003-07-24· cited 26×
• Dinco v. Dylex Limited
  First Circuit· 1997-04-25· cited 17×
• Bielagus v. EMRE of New Hampshire Corp.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2003-07-01· cited 16×
• Unit Owners Ass'n of Summit Vista Lot 8 Condominium v. Miller
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-05-16· cited 15×
• Gautschi v. Auto Body Discount Center, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-03-28· cited 13×
• GE Mobile Water, Inc. v. Red Desert Reclamation, LLC
  D. New Hampshire· 2014-03-17· cited 12×
• Michnovez v. Blair, LLC
  D. New Hampshire· 2011-06-13· cited 10×
• United States v. Kattar
  D. New Hampshire· 1999-08-19· cited 9×
• Charley Toppino & Sons v. SEAWATCH
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-10· cited 6×
• SALTPONDS CONDO. v. Walbridge Aldinger Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-04-30· cited 5×
• Stewart v. Stewart
  First Circuit· 2018-11-01· cited 4×
• In Re Martin
  D. New Hampshire· 2008-06-16· cited 3×
• Christina DiIorio-Sterling v. P Capstone Management, LLC, et al.
  D. New Hampshire· 2022-03-31· cited 1×
• Fujifilm North America Corporation et al. v. P M&R Printing Equipment, Inc. et al.
  D. New Hampshire· 2021-02-24· cited 1×
• Sheppard v. River Valley Fitness One, et al.
  D. New Hampshire· 2002-01-24· cited 1×
• Surge Resources v. Barrow Group et al
  D. New Hampshire· 2003-03-12· cited 1×
• Petition of Whitman Operating Co., LLC d/b/a Camp Walt Whitman & a.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2021-09-22
• U.S. v. Kattar
  D. New Hampshire· 1999-08-19

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harkeem v. Adams
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1977-08-29· cited 143×
• Ca 79-3053 Publicker Industries, Inc. And Continental Distilling Corporation v. Roman Ceramics Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1979-08-08· cited 134×
• Lempke v. Dagenais
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1988-08-08· cited 49×
• Austin Co. v. Vaughn Building Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1982-10-27· cited 47×
• Druding v. Allen
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-09-10· cited 32×
• C & M Realty Trust v. Wiedenkeller
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1990-08-01· cited 23×
• Peter R. Previte, Inc. v. McAllister Florist, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1973-10-31· cited 22×
• Ashland Lumber Co. v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1979-05-31· cited 18×
• Directors Guild of America, Inc. v. Garrison Productions, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1990-03-30· cited 14×
• Town of Nottingham v. Bonser
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1988-12-09· cited 12×