United States v. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 779 · 1968
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Murphy (1980), State v. Morrill (1985)
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Pereira v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · California v. Curry · Viscardi v. United States
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as: any person who has purchased from an issuer with a view to, or offers or sells for an issuer in connection with, the distribution of any security, or participates or has a direct or indirect participation in any such undertaking, or participates or has a participation in the direct or indirect underwriting of any such undertaking.... As used in this paragraph the term”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Seattle-First National Bank v. Carlstedt · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 90,277 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Thomas Edward Cavanagh, U.S. Milestone, and William N. Levy, Karen Cavanagh, Cromlix, Llc, and Tamar Lehmann, Relief-Defendant-Appellants, Electro-Optical Systems, Corp., George Chachas, Thomas R. Brooksbank, Optimum Fund, Agira Trading, Ltd., Customer Safety, S.L., Cambiarios, S.L., Construcciones, S.L., Thomas A. Hantges, Cosimo Tacopino, Donald & Co. Securities Inc., Shbl Associates Europe Ltd., Joseph Falco, Martin Hodas, Bernd Stieghorst, Erin Martin, Anthony S. Luttenberger, Ana P. Lopez, Metropolitan Trade Finance Ltd., Tim Timlin, Carmillo Monastra, Eugene Stricker, Arthur De Acutis, Jean-Pierre Neuhaus, Kenneth C. Kehoe, and Antonio v. Borotto, Relief-Defendants“transactions by any person other than an issuer, underwriter, or dealer.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by the issuer, or any person under direct or indirect common control with the issuer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.