Spectrum Financial Companies v. Marconsult, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 377 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Murphy (1980), Windon Third Oil & Gas Drilling Partnership v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1986)
21 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Harris v. Oklahoma · Rolf v. Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the relationship of defendant to plaintiff; (2) defendant's access to the information as compared to that of plaintiff; (3) defendant’s benefit derived from the relationship; (4) defendant’s awareness of whether plaintiff was relying on their relationship in making his or her investment decisions; and (5) defendant’s activity in initiating the transaction in question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Following denial of class status ... Spectrum was able to reach all 92 limited partners, 56 of whom joined in the second lawsuit ... This indicates that joinder was not impracticable. Moreover, it may indicate that several potential members of the class did not wish to pursue their claims, despite the fact that it would cost them nothing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“designed to compartmentalize and simplify a negligence inquiry,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hollinger
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.