Weber v. CMP CORPORATION’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1982 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. (1968), Globus v. Law Research Service, Inc. (1969)
19 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77K (§ 11 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Hurn v. Oursler · List v. Fashion Park, Inc. · Fischman v. Raytheon Mfg. Co. · Ellis v. Carter · O'Neill v. Maytag
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“****** “(2) offers or sells a security * * by the use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or of the mails, by means of * * * oral communication, which includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (the purchaser not knowing of such untruth or omission), and who shall not sustain the burden of proof that he did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of such untruth or omission, shall be liable to the person purchasing such security from him * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the duty allegedly breached is only the general duty existing among corporate officers, directors and shareholders, no cause of action is stated under Rule 10b-5 unless there is an allegation of facts amounting to deception. O’Neill v. Maytag, 339 F.2d 764 , 767-768 (2d Cir. 1964). (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen, to conduct actionable under Sec. 11 of the 1933 Act, there is added the ingredient of fraud, then that conduct becomes actionable under Sec. 10(b) * * *.”
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.