Denny v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1993
1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United States v. Bornstein · Segal v. Gordon · Robert R. Felton and Edward J. Egan v. Walston and Co., Inc. · Caton v. United States · Rich v. Touche Ross & Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If defendants had described the vague contingencies limned in [the complaint] and reality had provided a happier turn of events, would not defendants have been liable for their gloomy publications?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“replead within twenty days, upon an adequate description of the facts contributing to his (Denny's) various beliefs and upon a particular statement of the alleged fraud,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denny v. Barber“disclose those facts that have led him to believe that defendants' publications are false”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denny v. Barber
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.