Lowenschuss v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On February 2, 1973, two things happened: (1) The management of A & P announced its opposition to the tender offer and indicated that it would take legal action to prevent the consummation of the tender offer; and (2) the plaintiff placed an order for 2000 shares of A & P stock, which order was executed in two transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. I make no finding as to which of these events took place first.1 Thereafter, but before February 13, 1973, plaintiff tendered the A & P shares in accordance with the G & W tender offer.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowenschuss v. West Publishing Company

2. ““1. It should be of some interest to the appropriate body of the Pennsylvania Bar whether the plaintiff, a lawyer, truly purchased these shares as an investment for his pension plan or merely as a vehicle for this litigation in which counsel fees are sought.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowenschuss v. West Publishing Company

3. “(i)f this were the only action filed by this plaintiff, I might consider that it could be construed as including the Williams Act claims,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowenschuss v. Kane