7 Illinois opinions name it 2 courts 1996–2022 1 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Illinois courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
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Vernon v. Schustergreen1 sentence2010“The well-settled general rule is that a corporation that purchases the assets of another corporation is not liable for the debts or liabilities of the transferor corporation.” Vernon v. Schuster, 179 Ill. 2d 338, 344-45 (1997). | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
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| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Illinois. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
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Advocate Financial Group, LLC v. 5434 North Winthrop, LLC
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2 sentences2014Publications, had held that a successor liability claim is not barred merely because the alleged successor purchased the alleged predecessor’s assets “in a commercially reasonable disposition of - 16 - 2014 IL App (2d) 130998 ¶ 38 Unfortunately, here, the trial court did not consider whether the intervening sale, unlike the foreclosure sales in the preceding cases, was a mere mechanism for arranging a transfer from the original corporation to the corporate clone with the intermediary’s conscious participation from the start. 2014Publications, had held that a successor liability claim is not barred merely because the alleged successor purchased the alleged predecessor’s assets “in a commercially reasonable disposition of - 16 - 2014 IL App (2d) 130998 ¶ 38 Unfortunately, here, the trial court did not consider whether the intervening sale, unlike the foreclosure sales in the preceding cases, was a mere mechanism for arranging a transfer from the original corporation to the corporate clone with the intermediary’s conscious participation from the start. | 2 | 2014–2014 |
Village of Kirkland v. Kirkland Properties Holdings Co., LLC I
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2 sentences2022The homeowners asserted standing to sue under the annexation agreement as successors to the agreement to the - 14 - 2022 IL App (2d) 200780 extent that they were successor owners of record under the agreement’s successor liability clause. 2022The agreement’s successor liability clause provided: “ ‘This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, successor owners of record of the Subject Property, assignees, lessees and upon any successor municipal authorities of said Village and successor municipalities ***.’ ” Id. ¶ 41 The trial court dismissed the homeowners’ claim against the developer, determining that they did not have standing to sue the developer for breach of the annexation agreement. | 1 | 2022–2022 |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston
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1 sentence2020John Wiley, 376 U.S. at 550 . ¶ 18 Use of the successor liability doctrine in federal labor law cases was further developed in Golden State Bottling Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 414 U.S. 168 (1973). | 1 | 2020–2020 |
Golden State Bottling Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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1 sentence2020John Wiley, 376 U.S. at 550 . ¶ 18 Use of the successor liability doctrine in federal labor law cases was further developed in Golden State Bottling Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 414 U.S. 168 (1973). | 1 | 2020–2020 |
Ed Peters Jewelry Co. v. C & J Jewelry Co.
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1 sentence2014Thus, “the fact that C&J acquired the Anson assets indirectly through Fleet, rather than in a direct sale from Anson, [did] not trump the successor liability doctrine as a matter of law, since equity is loath to elevate the form of the transfer over its substance.” Id. at 268 . ¶ 34 Ed Peters is dissimilar to the present case in that there the plaintiff had raised the factual possibility that the two transfers, from Anson to Fleet and then from Fleet to C&J, were in reality parts of one integrated transaction arranged in advance by both the owners of the two corporations and the ostensibly ind | 1 | 2014–2014 |
Continental Insurance v. Schneider, Inc.
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1 sentence2014Id. | 1 | 2014–2014 |
Lemire v. Garrard Drugs
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2 sentences1996Lemire, 95 Mich. App. at 525 , 291 N.W.2d at 105 . 1996Lemire, 95 Mich. App. at 525 , 291 N.W.2d at 105 . | 1 | 1996–1996 |
Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.