Wellman v. Dickinson’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 355 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Roth v. Jennings (2007), Morales v. Quintel Entertainment, Inc. (2001)
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 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 Santoni v. United States · Rondeau v. Mosinee Paper Corp. · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Electronic Specialty Co. v. International Controls Corp. · Marbury Management Inc. v. Kohn
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acquiring, holding, voting, or disposing of equity securities”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`combined in furtherance of a common objective.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This provision would prevent a group of persons who seek to pool their voting or other interests in the securities of an issuer from evading the provisions of the statute because no one individual owns more than . . . [5] percent of a class of securities at the time they agreed to act in concert . . . . This provision is designed to obtain full disclosure of the identity of any person or group obtaining the benefits of ownership by reason of any contract, understanding, relationship, agreement or other arrangement.”
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.