Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arthur Young & Company F L W’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 785 · 1979
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Transgo, Inc. v. Ajac Transmission Parts Corp. (1985), Securities and Exchange Commission v. Seaboard Corporation Admiralty Fund (1982)
36 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Mackay v. Nesbett · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,017 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Management Dynamics, Inc., and William N. Levy, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Management Dynamics, Inc., and Samuel D. Hodge · Campbell 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and ... will not be disturbed unless there has been a clear abuse of it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the defendants were not negligent”); SEC v. Arthur Young & Co., 590 F.2d 785 , 787 (9th Cir.1979) (“as-sum[ing], without deciding, that in a statutory enforcement proceeding [brought by the •SEC], negligence, rather than scienter, constitutes the standard by which an accountant’s or auditor’s performance must be measured” under Section 14(a)); Gruss v. Curtis Publ’g Co., 534 F.2d 1396 , 1403 (2d Cir.1976) (describing “negligence” as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fails to reveal material facts which he knows or which, but for a deliberate refusal to become informed, he should have known”
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.