Walling v. Beverly Enterprises’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 393 · 1973
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 39 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. (1986), Decker v. Glenfed, Inc. (1994)
52 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. § 781 · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · Durland v. United States · Vine v. Beneficial Finance Co. · A. T. Brod & Co. v. Jack Perlow and Adele Perlow, Also Known as Adele Wagner
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ule 9(b) does not require nor make legitimate the pleading of detailed evidentiary matter.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Malice, intent, knowledge, and other condition of mind may be averred generally.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stated the time, place and nature of the alleged fraudulent activities. The fraud was entering into the ... agreement with only a limited intention of performing. This is a sufficient averment.”
7 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.