Weiner’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
26 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Kenneth Newton (2001), Steven Klein
26 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
Relies on Basic Inc. v. Levinson · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Colautti v. Franklin
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘forecasts, opinions or projections are accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements, the forward-looking statements will not form the basis for a securities fraud claim if those statements did not affect the ‘total mix’ of information ... provided investors. In other words, cautionary language, if sufficient, renders the alleged omissions or misrepresentations immaterial as a matter of law.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person, directly or indirectly... [t]o make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.” 17 C.F.R. § 240 .10b-5(b). 9 . See, consolidated amended complaint at ¶¶ 58, 105-112. 10 . Id. at ¶ 58 (b)(i-ii). 11 . Id. at ¶ 58 (b)(iv). 12 . Id. at ¶¶ 105-112 . 13 . The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that “materiality is a mixed question of law and fact, and the delicate assessments of the inferences a reasonable shareholder would draw from a given set of facts are peculiarly for the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establishing a motive and an opportunity to commit fraud, or by setting forth facts that constitute circumstantial evidence of either reckless or conscious behavior.”
2 later decisions 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.