Malone v. Microdyne Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 471 · 1994
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 25 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Lawrence Greebel Richard Crane Brian Robinson John Ann Somers v. Ftp Software Inc (1999), Miller v. Pezzani (1994)
42 federal appellate · 25 district · 2 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. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston · Kuntz v. City of Dayton
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]isstatements or omissions regarding actual past or present facts are far more likely to be actionable than statements regarding projections of future performance.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gasner v. Board of Sup'rs of the County of Dinwiddie, Va. · Joe Miller, IV Robert W. Pearce, Jr. v. Asensio & Company, Incorporated, and Manuel P. Asensio Asensio Capital Management Incorporated John Does 1-20, Joe Miller, IV Robert W. Pearce, Jr. v. Asensio & Company, Incorporated, and Manuel P. Asensio Asensio Capital Management Incorporated John Does 1-20“company that 'substantially overstate[s] its revenues by reporting consignment transactions as sales ... mak[es] false or misleading statements of material fact.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party has been fully heard ... and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party.”
4 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.