Myzel v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
386 F.2d 718 · 1967
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 47 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976), McNally v. United States (1987)
223 federal appellate · 47 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Pereira v. United States · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
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 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute is remedial and is to be construed liberally. It has been interpreted as requiring only some indirect means of discipline or influence short of actual direction to hold a 'controlling person' liable.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metge v. Baehler · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,005 Don Farley Robert Mendenhall v. William R. Henson, Jr. Paul M. Henson Bowes Lyon Resources Ltd. National Transport Services, Inc., Westark Specialties, Inc., Don Farley Robert Mendenhall v. William R. Henson, Jr., Paul M. Henson, Bowes Lyon Resources Ltd. National Transport Services, Inc. Westark Specialties, Inc.“(a) Every person who, directly or indirectly controls any person liable under any provision of this title * * * or of any rule or regulation thereunder shall also be liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such controlled person to any person to whom such controlled person is liable, unless the controlling person acted in good faith and did not directly or indirectly induce the act or acts constituting the violation or cause of action.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * knowledge of the falseness of the impression produced by the statements or omissions made * * *”
5 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.