Phillips v. Securities & Exchange Commission’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.2d 27 · 1946
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1979
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Otis & Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Commonwealth & Southern Corp. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Morgan Stanley & Co. v. Securities Exchange Commission · Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians v. United States · Holiday v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These conversations seem to us no more than legitimate prehearing conferences of the kind which the commissioners or their staff must have if all the intricate details involved in even a single holding company simplification is to be carried to completion within the time of man. Certainly a court would not be justified in interfering with such helpful preliminary conferences to expedite the settlement of details without a very definite showing of prejudice to an aggrieved party or eventual denial of a fair hearing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It seems now settled that conflicts in jurisdiction as between courts must be avoided, and hence that a circuit court of appeals will not pass upon a shareholder's petition for review while all equities may be adjusted by a district court in a pending proceeding brought by the Commission for enforcement of its order.”
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.