Royal Air Properties, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
312 F.2d 210 · 1962
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 17 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. (1970), Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson (1991)
92 federal appellate · 17 district · 9 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 Ellis v. Carter · Fratt v. Robinson · Errion v. Connell · Jack D. Matheson v. George Armbrust
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the Securities Exchange Act is to protect the innocent investor, not one who loses his innocence and then waits to see how his investment turns out before he decides to invoke the provisions of the Act.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action brought under section 10(b), common law fraud need not be alleged or ultimately proved. After establishing the use of some means of interstate commerce, the mails, or any national stock exchange facility . . ., Rule 10b-5(b), a proper implementation of section 10(b), only requires proof of a material misstatement or an omission of a material fact in connection with the purchase or sale of any security to make out a prima facie case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where Congress has provided a specific and relatively short statute of limitations, it can be inferred that the federally created limitation is not to be cut short.”
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.