Mathias v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v. Long Island Rail Road · Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · Lightfoot v. Union Carbide Corp. · Ashland Management Inc. v. Janien
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential factors the formula takes into account driving the value of an option to purchase common stock are: (1) the stock price on the date of valuation; (2) the exercise price at which the option holder can purchase the stock; (3) the amount of time over which the option will be valid and outstanding; (4) the volatility of the underlying common stock; and (5) the risk-free rate of interest rates at the time the option is being valued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seinfeld v. Becherer“in good conscience and justice he should not retain, but should deliver to another.”
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.