Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,260 Sullivan C. Richardson v. John W. MacArthur’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 35 · 1971
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Manor Nursing Centers, Inc. (1972), Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,017 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Management Dynamics, Inc., and William N. Levy, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Management Dynamics, Inc., and Samuel D. Hodge (1975)
47 federal appellate · 18 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. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78T (§ 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Desist v. United States · Brady v. United States · Green v. Wolf Corp. · Eaton v. Hobson · Myzel v. Fields
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acted in good faith and did not directly or indirectly induce the act or acts constituting the violation or cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We believe that § 10(b) and Rule 10b — 5 prohibit all fraudulent schemes in connection with the purchase or sale of securities, whether the artifices employed involve a garden type variety of fraud, or present a unique form of deception. Novel or atypical methods should not provide immunity from the securities laws.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he statute is remedial and is to be construed liberally. It has been interpreted as requiring only some indirect means of discipline or influence short of actual direction to hold a”
3 later decisions 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.