Blau v. Max Factor & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 304 · 1965
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Kern County Land Company v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (1973), Reliance Electric Company v. Emerson Electric Company (1972)
40 federal appellate · 2 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 Blau v. Lehman · Smolowe v. Delendo Corp. · Park & Tilford, Inc. v. Schulte · Blau v. Mission Corp. · Blau v. Ogsbury
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is held to be a purchase within section 16(b) if in any way it lends itself to the accomplishment of what the statute is designed to prevent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny profit realized by ... [an insider] from any purchase and sale, or any sale and purchase, of any equity security ... within any period of less than six months ... shall inure to and be recoverable by the issuer....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The exchange of Class A for common did not interrupt the continuity of appellees’ investment; it did not increase or decrease the amount invested, or alter in any way the risk assumed long years before . . . Thus, [defendants] made only one investment decision in the six months’ period- — the decision to terminate their long-term investment by sale.””
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.