Cohen v. Stevanovich’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “short selling — even in high volumes — is not, by itself, manipulative ... To be actionable as a manipulative act, short selling must be willfully combined with something more to create a false impression of how market participants value a security. Similarly, purchasing a floor-less convertible security is not, by itself or when coupled with short selling, inherently manipulative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 127 F. Supp. 3d 60 - Sharette v. Credit Suisse International

2. “Requiring that loss causation be pled under Rule 9(b) is consistent with the language of the rule itself, which requires that all circumstances of fraud, except for intent, be pled with particularity.”). . Plaintiff discounts this and other statements identified by Defendants as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eli Wilamowsky v. Take-two Interactive Software, Inc.

3. “(1) give rise to a strong inference that the defendant had both motive and opportunity to commit fraud or (2) provide strong circumstantial evidence of 'conscious misbehavior or recklessness.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hudson Bay Master Fund Ltd. v. Patriot Nat'l, Inc.