Weitzen v. Kearns’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1981
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. · Birnbaum v. Newport Steel Corp. · Dyer v. MacDougall · List v. Fashion Park, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . '. apparent that Rule 10b-6 was designed to protect a purchaser of a security in a distribution from abnormal market pressures on the distribution price created by the issuer’s or underwriter’s own trading.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A corporation which issues its shares is a `seller' ...”
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.