Morse v. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2016
3 federal appellate · 4 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. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77D (§ 4 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77K (§ 11 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 80A
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. North American Research and Development Corp., Edward White and K. Ralph Bowman, Securities and Exchange Commission v. North American Research and Development Corp., and Martin Orenzoff, Alfred Blumberg, Lewis Dillman and Lars Hagglof & Co., Ltd. · Ingenito v. Bermec Corporation · 86 F. Supp. 869 - Osborne v. Mallory · Kubik v. Goldfield · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,302 Ben Diskin v. Lomasney & Co., a Partnership, and Myron A. Lomasney
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From every indication in the authorities, the crucial date, i.e., the date when a security is first offered to the public within the meaning of § 77m of Title 15, is not earlier than the effective date of last amendment to the registration statement and not later than the date when the prospectus is released to, or other solicitation is made of, the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to treat the `bona fide' offering date of a registered security as the date upon which the security actually becomes available to the public for purchase and sale, i.e., the effective date of the registration statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“transactions within one year after the first date upon which the security was bona fide offered to the public by the issuer or by or through an underwriter.”
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.