Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,399 Kenneth N. Nelson v. O. E. Serwold and Helen Serwold, His Wife, Kenneth N. Nelson v. O. E. Serwold and Helen Serwold, His Wife’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 1332 · 1978
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Janas v. McCracken (1999), Securities and Exchange Commission v. Seaboard Corporation Admiralty Fund (1982)
66 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 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 Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Desist v. United States · Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Cole v. United States
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the Supreme Court left undecided the question whether recklessness is sufficient to support liability under Rule 10b-5, distinguished jurists have long considered it so.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unlawful for any person, in connection with the offer, sale, or purchase of any security, directly or indirectly (1) to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, (2) to make any untrue statement of material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of circumstances under which they are made, not misleading, or (3) to engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] mental state embracing intent to deceive, manipulate, or defraud. [The Court recog nized that i]n certain areas of the law recklessness is considered to be a form of intentional conduct for purposes of imposing liability for some act.”
3 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.