Westlake v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77F (§ 6 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 7 U.S.C. § 13 · 7 U.S.C. § 6A · 7 U.S.C. § 6B · 7 U.S.C. § 6K · 7 U.S.C. § 7
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Curran · Hitt v. Nissan Motor Co. · Simon v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]lass treatment of a claim may be appropriate in the unlikely event that plaintiff can show that “oral misrepresentations can be uniform, e.g., through the use of a standardized sales pitch by all [the] company’s salesmen.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.