Willheim v. Murchison’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 33 · 1965
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2002
9 federal appellate · 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 Abel v. United States · Blau v. Lehman · Brown v. Bullock · Alleghany Corporation v. Allan P. Kirby, Charles T. Ireland, Jr., and Fred M. Kirby, Randolph Phillips · 35 F. Supp. 22 - Insuranshares Corporation v. Northern Fiscal 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have given rise to a flood of litigation that must be unparalleled in American corporation law,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * However, in construing the variant term ‘controlling block,’ the emphasis must be on transferable elements of power and due attention must be given to the precise regulatory provision invoked. Obviously, management will give an attentive hearing to any sizeable stockholder and a single share may prove decisive in an even contest; but where the amount is less than 25% and has no other indicia of control, it is not a ‘controlling block’ unless ownership itself presages victory. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Investment Company Act, the product of joint effort and compromise by the SEC and the industry, was drafted with a good deal of specificity; a court should give it a hospitable reception but ought not expand its words beyond their natural meaning to bring within its sweep a transaction, such as that here at issue, which is not the ‘mischief and defect’ aimed at by the Act and which it is doubtful that Congress would have wished to include if it had considered the problem”.”
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.