Wheat v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 874 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Huddleston v. Herman & MacLean (1981), Securities and Exchange Commission v. Blatt S (1978)
16 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Gardner v. Panama Railroad · Royal Air Properties, Inc., a Corporation, Harold L. Heathman and Madge I. Heathman, His Wife v. R. Philip Smith · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,122 John R. Lewis Inc. And Glenn E. Hinton, Investments, Inc. v. Hal C. Newman
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this circuit, the test of materiality (under Rule 10b-5) is 'whether a reasonable man would attach importance to the fact misrepresented in determining his course of action.' Smallwood v. Pearl Brewing Co., 489 F.2d 579 , 603-04 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 873, 95 S.Ct. 134, 42 L.Ed.2d 113 (1974).”
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.