Cohen v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Maldonado v. Flynn (1979), Brown v. Ferro Corp. (1985)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Meinhard v. Salmon · Automatic Radio Manufacturing Co. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be disregarded if it contains conclusions of law or of ultimate fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“impugning the honesty, loyalty or competency of directors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Maldonado v. Flynn
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.