In Re: Comshare, Incorporated Securities Litigation. Harry M. Hoffman v. Comshare, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.3d 542 · 1999
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 22 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 287 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Carol Novak v. Sally Frame, Janas v. McCracken (1999)
86 federal appellate · 22 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 Conley v. Gibson · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores
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 287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any private action arising under this chapter in which the plaintiff may recover money damages only on proof that the defendant acted with a particular state of mind, the complaint shall, with respect to each act or omission alleged to violate this chapter, state with particularity facts giving rise to a strong inference that the defendant acted with the required state of mind.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute the pleading of a strong inference of scienter.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“highly unreasonable conduct which is an extreme departure from the standards of ordinary care.”
13 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.