Booth v. Varian Associates’s Empirical Analysis
334 F.2d 1 · 1964
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Kern County Land Company v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (1973), Reliance Electric Company v. Emerson Electric Company (1972)
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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) · 15 U.S.C. § 78P (§ 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Securities & Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. · Sweet v. United States · Smolowe v. Delendo Corp. · Monrosa v. Carbon Black Export, Inc. · Gratz v. Claughton
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as much as possible like a market purchase at the time of the closing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“open the door to widespread evasion of the act, since any acquisition of stock could take the form of a contract in which the seller would owe a debt, that is would have a firm obligation to deliver the stock at some future date, and the buyer would * * * have a correponding obligation to pay for the stock at a future date in money or other property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“from any purchase and sale, or any sale and purchase, of any equity security of such issuer * * * within any period of less than six months,”
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.