Walner v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2016
1 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. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Birnbaum v. Newport Steel Corp. · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,853 John Schlick v. Penn-Dixie Cement Corporation · Segal v. Gordon
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“breach of a fiduciary obligation owed as a director or officer, rather than from any shareholder vote obtained by false proxy solicitation materials.”
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.