Edgar v. Mite Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
310 federal appellate · 230 district · 339 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,563 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore (1996), Honig v. Doe (1988)
310 federal appellate · 230 district · 339 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78M (§ 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shaffer v. Heitner · Hines v. Davidowitz · Steffel v. Thompson
Cited together with Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Cts Corporation v. Dynamics Corporation of America Indiana · Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation v. New York State Liquor Authority · Healy v. Beer Institute · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey
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 1,563 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny attempt 'directly' to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction over persons or property would offend sister States and exceed the inherent limits of the State's power.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The internal affairs doctrine is a conflict of laws principle which recognizes that only one State should have the authority to regulate a corporation's internal affairs-matters peculiar to the relationships among or between the corporation and its current officers, directors, and shareholders-because otherwise a corporation could be faced with conflicting demands.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress sought to protect the investor not only by furnishing him with the necessary information but also by withholding from management or the bidder any undue advantage that could frustrate the exercise of an informed choice.”
12 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.