Roberts v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
212 F.2d 82 · 1954
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Kern County Land Company v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (1973), Blau v. Mission Corp. (1954)
40 federal appellate · 1 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. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Park & Tilford, Inc. v. Schulte · Madden v. Queens County Jockey Club, Inc. · Blau v. Mission Corp. · Scocozza v. Erie Railroad · Shaw v. Dreyfus
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]ike treatment of all stockholders will in most cases remove the possibility of abuse.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Park & Tilford v. Schulte, * * *, we held that voluntary conversion of convertible preferred stock into common was a ‘purchase.’ ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““the acquisition resulted in the insider holding a different proportional interest in the issuer.””
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.