Zorn v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Savoy Industries, Inc. (1978), Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Vigman (1985)
6 federal appellate · 13 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. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 80A · 15 U.S.C. § 80A · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Killian v. United States · Perry O. Hooper, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Consolidated American Industries, Inc. v. Mountain States Securities Corporation · Ford Motor Co. v. Ryan · Brown v. Bullock
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Venue under the Exchange Act is proper if one act in furtherance of the unlawful scheme is done in the forum district. This does not require that each defendant perform such an act; sufficient is an act of which all the defendants were intended beneficiaries and a part of the fraudulent scheme.. .. The proxies sent into this district by interstate mail, with the alleged purpose of securing approval of the contracts, are adequate to sustain venue, for, as alleged in the complaint, it was an important step in the execution and consummation of the fraudulent scheme....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one party or the other will be equally inconvenienced, [the] plaintiffs choice of forum will not be disturbed.”
2 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.