Rochez Bros. v. Rhoades’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 402 · 1973
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 32 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Sundstrand Corp. v. Sun Chemical Corp. (1977), Rochez Brothers, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation v. Charles R. Rhoades (1975)
80 federal appellate · 32 district · 1 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
Relies on Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Desist v. United States · 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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that even if the material facts had been disclosed, plaintiff's decision as to the transaction would not have been different from what it was.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the circumstances of this case, involving primarily a failure to disclose, positive proof of reliance- is not a prerequisite to recovery. All that is necessary is that the facts withheld be material in the sense that a reasonable investor might have considered them important in the making of this decision. (Citations omitted.) This obligation to disclose and this withholding of a material fact establish the requisite element of causation in fact. (Citation omitted.)” Affiliated Ute Citizens v. United States, 406 U.S. 128, 153-154 , 92 S.Ct. 1456, 1472 , 31 L.Ed.2d 741 (1972).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The test of the materiality of undisclosed or misrepresented facts is basically an objective one — i. e., whether ‘a reasonable man would attach importance [to them] in determining his course of action in the transaction in question.’ ” (citations omitted).”
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.