Mason v. Unkeless’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 597 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2003
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bell v. Hood · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in connection with the purchase or sales of any security.”
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.