Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,265 Jacob Fershtman v. Herman J. Schectman’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.2d 1357 · 1971
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Goldberg v. Meridor (1977), Elkind v. Liggett & Myers, Inc. (1980)
19 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. · Teague v. Regional Commissioner of Customs · United States v. Grinnell 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f defendants were legally entitled to terminate the partnership on March 31, 1968, in their sole discretion, it would make no difference what they misrepresented or concealed, even if we assume in plaintiff’s favor that this transaction constituted a sale. [Citations omitted]. Id. at 1360 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Beyond that the plaintiffs have suffered no damage from making their investments; rather they have reaped large profits.” 450 F.2d at 1361 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.