Wolfson v. Solomon’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Eggleston v. Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union No. 130 (1981), 305 Pa. Super. 120 - Janicik v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1982)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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. § 77K (§ 11 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Brady v. United States · Stevens v. Marks · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the plaintiffs did not belong to both classes they could not be representative of both.””
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.