Sonesta International Hotels Corp. v. Wellington Associates’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 247 · 1973
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 386 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. (1976), Edgar v. Mite Corp. (1982)
115 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 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. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur 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 386 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) probable success on the merits and possible irreparable injury, or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting the preliminary relief.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The probability of success on the merits in any application for injunctive relief turns greatly upon whether the plaintiff has shown that the tender offer under attack has misstated or omitted material facts. The materiality of facts allegedly misstated or omitted depends, in turn, upon whether a reasonable investor might have considered them to be important in deciding whether to accept the tender offer.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the event, if it should occur, could influence the stockholder’s decision to tender, the chance that it might well occur is a factor that should be disclosed to the investor for consideration in making his or her decision.” (Sonesta, supra, at 251 .)”
4 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.