Vaughn v. Teledyne, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 1214 · 1980
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Hanon v. Dataproducts Corp. (1992), William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. v. ITT Continental Baking Co. (1981)
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Gooding v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Harris v. Oklahoma
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t is just good general business practice to make such projections for internal corporate use. There is no evidence, however, that the estimates were made with such reasonable certainty even to allow them to be disclosed to the public.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require a company to disclose financial projections.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not a violation of any securities law to fail to disclose a result that is obvious even to a person with only an elementary understanding of the stock market.”
2 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.