Lain v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21d of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21e of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Tuchman v. DSC Communications Corp. · Lovelace v. Software Spectrum Inc · Harris v. Ivax Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff cannot charge Defendants with intentionally misleading their investors about facts Defendants may have become aware of after making allegedly misleading statements to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of the vague and optimistic type that cannot support a securities fraud action ... and contain no concrete factual or material misrepresentation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.