Abbey v. Control Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · United Copper Securities Company v. Amalgamated Copper Company · Stadin v. Union Electric Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it seems incongruous for plaintiff to argue based on the strong underlying public policy of the 1934 Act when that Act is only marginally applicable, if applicable at all, to this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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