Falls v. Fickling’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1362 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2003
9 federal appellate ·
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 · TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc. · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Patterson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this circuit, the test of materiality (under Rule 10b-5) is 'whether a reasonable man would attach importance to the fact misrepresented in determining his course of action.' Smallwood v. Pearl Brewing Co., 489 F.2d 579 , 603-04 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 873, 95 S.Ct. 134, 42 L.Ed.2d 113 (1974).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Close to the rule’s heart lies the situation in which corporate insiders take advantage of their superior knowledge to profit at the expense of other shareholders by trading the corporation’s stock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a stock's price on the public markets [does not] conclusively establish[] its fair market value.”
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.