Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,889 Robert Abrahamson and Marjorie Abrahamson v. Malcolm K. Fleschner’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 862 · 1978
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis (1979)
41 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Bell v. Hood · Brown v. Illinois · Cort v. Ash
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud any client or prospective client; (2) to engage in any transaction, practice, or course of business which operates as a fraud or deceit upon any client or prospective client”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]ny person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or as to the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities, or who, for compensation and as part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Before changes in the rights of a security holder can qualify as the “purchase” of a new security under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, there must be such significant change in the nature of the investment or in the investment risks as to amount to a new investment.”
4 later decisions 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.