Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 270 · 1979
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 149 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 290 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Coffey v. Van Dorn Iron Works (1986), Regents of the University of California v. Lilly & Co. (1997)
58 federal appellate · 149 district ·
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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Santoni v. United States · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc.
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 290 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Weighing of factors for and against transfer involves subtle considerations and is best left to the discretion of the trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court was familiar with the case and transfer may have led to delay”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be charged with a violation of 4b(A) [one] must have known that he was cheating”
3 later decisions 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.