Rickel v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2005
8 federal appellate · 2 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. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Moviecolor Ltd. v. Eastman Kodak Co. · Philadelphia Electric Co. v. Anaconda American Brass Co. · Klein v. Bower
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the time within which an action must be commenced is computed from the time when facts were discovered or from the time when facts could with reasonable diligence have been discovered, or from either of such times, the action must be commenced within two years after such actual or imputed discovery .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stull v. Bayard“The result, in an actual fraud suit, is two separately-timed and alternative limitations periods in the case of a delayed discovery: six years from accrual or two years from discovery, whichever is longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stull v. Bayard“or the person[s] under whom [they claim] discovered- the fraud, or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it”
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.