Rathborne v. Rathborne’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2009
2 federal appellate · 2 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. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 787 · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · International Controls Corp. v. Vesco · 326 F. Supp. 943 - Securities & Exchange Commission v. Harwyn Industries Corp. · Reserve Life Insurance v. Provident Life Insurance · Petersen v. Federated Development 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the meaning of § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In the alternative, Rathborne argued that RLC's pro rata distribution of the newly-issued RPI shares to its (RLC's) own shareholders was itself 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.