Papilsky v. Berndt’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2001
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Turner v. Louisiana · Johnson v. Moses · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 92,714 Edwin J. Herpich v. Robert H. Wallace, Jack E. Love · deHaas v. Empire Petroleum Co. · Cathedral Estates, Inc. v. Taft Realty Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(P)robably the most straightforward approach is to admit frankly that it lies within the sound discretion of the court to determine the necessity for demand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The majority of said directors, participated, approved of and acquiesced in said transaction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the directors participated or acquiesced in the wrongs alleged”
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.