Ayers v. Wolfinbarger’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 8 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2007
13 federal appellate · 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77O (§ 15 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Z (§ 26 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Tcherepnin v. Knight · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co. · Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 92,714 Edwin J. Herpich v. Robert H. Wallace, Jack E. Love
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has sometimes been accorded a broader construction under Section 12(2) than under Section 12(1), we adopt a test which we believe states a rational and workable standard for imposition of liability under either section. Its base lies between the antiquated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pharo v. Smith“decline to permit blame to be based solely on conjecture in the guise of inference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pharo v. Smith
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.