Segal v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.2d 602 · 1972
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 39 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 413 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably ATSI Communications, Inc. v. Shaar Fund, Ltd. (2007), Luce v. Edelstein (1986)
67 federal appellate · 39 district · 5 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. § 77L (§ 12 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 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)
Relies on Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp. · Perma Research & Development Co. v. Singer Co. · Shemtob v. Shearson, Hammill & 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 413 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[rjule 9(b)’s specificity requirement stems not only from the desire to minimize the number of strike suits but also more particularly from the desire to protect defendants from the harm that comes to their reputations or to their goodwill when they are charged with serious wrongdoing.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he general rule is that rule 9(b) pleadings cannot be based “on information and belief.” While the rule is relaxed as to matters peculiarly within the adverse parties’ knowledge, the allegations must then be accompanied by a statement of the facts upon which the belief is founded.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) complaint alleging fraud should be filed only after a wrong is reasonably believed to have occurred; it should seek to redress a wrong, not to find one.”
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.