Lewis v. Varnes’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 785 · 1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably 431 F. Supp. 1080 - Gross v. Diversified Mortgage Investors (1977), Whittaker v. Whittaker Corp. (1981)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Blau v. Lehman · Kern County Land Company v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation · Reliance Electric Company v. Emerson Electric Company · Smolowe v. Delendo Corp. · Garrison v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts, however, are free to adopt such a flexible approach in construing § 16(b) only in those cases where the relevant provision is either intrinsically ambiguous or in which there are alternative plausible applications of the provision to a particular fact situation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is an objective rule and does not reach every transaction in which an investor actually relies on inside information, or in which the potential for such reliance is great.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. William R. Whittaker, on Behalf of Himself, and of the Estate of Beulah Whittaker v. Whittaker Corporation, a California Corporation, William R. Whittaker, on Behalf of Himself, and of the Estate of Beulah Whittaker v. Whittaker Corporation, a California Corporation · Whittaker v. Whittaker Corp.“(f)or the purposes of § 16(b) . . . an 'insider' is one who is required to report his transactions under § 16(a),”
1 later decision 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.