Holmes v. Bateson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Roeder v. Alpha Industries, Inc. (1987), Ceres Partners v. GEL Associates (1990)
12 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78T (§ 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Securities & Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing herein contained, however, shall prevent the remaining partners from entering into any other mutually satisfactory arrangement or agreement with the estate of the deceased relative to the amount or method of payment of the amount due to or from the estate of any deceased partner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes v. Bateson“evaluation is consistent with that of Bateson and Bronson reached in September, 1969, and with that of McGill (an officer of Barry Wright) who felt that the rejected tentative offer of $4,800,000 by Barry Wright was much too low.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holmes v. Bateson“(T)he opportunities for growth appreciation with the right merger can mean much more in compensation and security (than the sales price), particularly as we become the nucleus of a very broad based acquisition program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes v. Bateson
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.