Ross v. Bolton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78O (§ 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78O (§ 15a of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Branzburg v. Hayes · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Brewer v. United States · Bredice v. Doctors Hospital, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a strong public interest in maintaining the integrity of effective industry self-regulation. This interest would clearly be undermined by making NASD files fair game for any of the thousands of private securities fraud litigants across the country who wish to shortcut their own discovery efforts and instead to reap the benefits of the Association’s ongoing, statutorily governed work. 15 U.S.C. §§ 78o-3, 78s.”
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.