Tawanda R. Simmons v. Louis E. Wolfson, Sandra Lee Simmons Shaw v. Louis E. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 455 · 1970
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores (1975), International Controls Corp. v. Vesco (1974)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 S. S. W., Inc. v. Air Transport Ass'n of America · Birnbaum v. Newport Steel Corp. · Eaton v. Hobson · Greater Iowa Corp. v. McLendon · Iroquois Industries, Inc. v. Syracuse China Corp.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appropriate remedies to redress said wrongs now exist in the state courts in derivative actions by shareholders, or in the federal courts where diversity jurisdiction and venue exist. In such actions the corporation is a necessary party. If a corporation has a claim for violation of Section 10(b), a shareholder may sue in a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails, or of any facility of any national securities exchange "(1) to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, "(2) to make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or "(3) to engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person, in connection with the purchase or sale of any security.”
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.