Blau v. Ogsbury’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 426 · 1954
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Blau v. Lamb (1966), Stella v. Graham-Paige Motors Corp. (1956)
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78E (§ 5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Park & Tilford, Inc. v. Schulte · Falco v. Donner Foundation, 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]peculation, actual or potential, is the only vice within the purview of § 16(b).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“before us took place in 1945, and no sale ensued until 1948, there has been no short-swing transaction within the statutory prohibition. Hence whatever the profits, they are not recoverable for the corporation under this statute. 23 Id. 24 In the present case there was similarly but one purchase by defendants of Smithfield shares. The Acquisition Agreement was plainly a”
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.