Brown v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2015
2 federal appellate · 9 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 43 U.S.C. § 1606 · 43 U.S.C. § 1625
Relies on TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. v. Piper Aircraft 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'if there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable shareholder would consider it important in deciding how to vote,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“). 7 . See 43 U.S.C. § 1625 (1986 & Supp.2003). 8 . See Brown v. Ward, 593 P.2d 247, 249 (Alaska 1979). 9 . Id. at 250 ('Since the SEC fraud rule and the common law both prohibit material falsehoods, authorities construing the SEC rule are a useful guide in determining when a misstatement is material under Alaska common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“false or misleading with respect to a material fact [or] omit[ ] a material fact necessary in order to make a statement made in the solicitation not false or misleading.”
1 later decision 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.