United States v. O'Hagan’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
298 federal appellate · 90 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 953 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo (2005)
298 federal appellate · 90 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. O'Hagan (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation
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 953 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he misappropriation theory premises liability on a fiduciary-turned-trader's deception of those who entrusted him with access to confidential information.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange, (a) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, (b) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person, in connection with the purchase or sale of any security.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“are violated when a corporate insider trades in the securities of his corporation on the basis of material, nonpublic information.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.