Bradley v. Hullander’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. (1995), Gilliland v. Elmwood Properties (1990)
2 federal appellate · 27 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. § 771 (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003)
Relies on Wilko v. Swan · Erckman v. United States · Johnson v. BALDWIN · Allen-Parker Co. v. Lollis · 363 F. Supp. 1117 - Allen Organ Co. v. North American Rockwell Corp.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) offers or sells a security by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading (the buyer not knowing of the untruth or omission), and who does not sustain the burden of proof that he did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of the untruth or omission. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“matters as to which an average prudent investor ought reasonably to be informed before purchasing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGaha v. Mosley
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.