444 F. Supp. 1124 - Wolfson v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1999
4 federal appellate · 1 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. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77X (§ 24 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Cort v. Ash · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agreements, setting forth certain terms and conditions of the relationship, and (b) Rule 405 of the New York Stock Exchange, the terms of which are fully set forth hereinafter; (5) that in connection with certain sales by the plaintiff of his capital stock in (Continental), the duty of care enumerated in item (4) supra was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfson v. Baker“Wolfson's knowledge of the registration requirements . . . was an exhaustively litigated issue, and that the jury's verdict against Wolfson necessarily rests upon a finding that Wolfson's claims of ignorance were insufficient to create a reasonable doubt of his criminal culpability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfson v. Baker“); (3) that after June of 1963 Morley was employed by the defendant Reynolds; (4) that at all times during their broker/customer relationship Morley (and, vicariously, the defendant Reynolds) owed the plaintiff a duty of care by virtue of (a) a series of signed agreements known as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfson v. Baker
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.