Clark v. Cameron-Brown Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Susman v. Lincoln American Corp. (1977), Dura-Bilt Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Corp. (1981)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In class action securities cases it is not always practical to require the plaintiffs to plead with absolute particularity even though their allegations are based on information and belief. The sufficiency of a pleading turns upon consideration of a number of factors, not the least of which is whether the action seeks to redress a wrong, not to find one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulk v. Bagley“It is inappropriate to focus exclusively on the fact that Rule 9(b) requires particularity in pleading fraud. This is too narrow an approach and fails to take account of the general simplicity and flexibility contemplated by the rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulk v. Bagley
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.