In re Broderbund/learning Company Securities Litigation Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2025
3 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
Relies on Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r · Randall v. Loftsgaarden · Miller v. Pezzani · Smith Land Improvement Corporation 87-5740 v. Celotex Corporation Smith Land & Improvement Corporation 87-5741 · Wyler Summit Partnership v. Turner Broadcasting System, 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be liable ... to the person purchasing such security from him ... [for] the consideration paid for such security with interest thereon, less the amount of any income received thereon, ... or for damages if he no longer owns the security,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he difference between the amount paid for the security (not exceeding the price at which the security was offered to the public) and ... the price at which such security shall have been disposed of in the market before suit....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That is to say, what the purchaser is entitled to is `a return of the consideration paid, reduced by the amount realized when he sold the security and by any "income received”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.