LeMaster v. Bull’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2007
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Prandini v. National Tea Co. · Ernest Klein v. Shields & Company and Warner G. Cosgrove, Jr. · Cook v. Ochsner Foundation Hospital
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly directed to deterrence of frivolous suits; to quick resolution of suits to which there are no valid defenses; and to deterrence of bad faith, or meritless defenses to actions brought under the Securities Act of 1933.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friedman v. Ganassi“costs of [a Sec. 11] suit ... in an amount sufficient to reimburse [the prevailing party] for the reasonable expenses incurred by him, in connection with such suit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friedman v. Ganassi
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.