Zerman v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 15 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. First Jersey Securities, Inc. (1996), Angelastro 84-5427 v. Prudential-Bache Securities Inc 84-5401 (1985)
28 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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. § 77L (§ 12 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78G (§ 7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Keeble v. United States · Jones v. United States · Ross v. A. H. Robins Co. · Decker v. Massey-Ferguson, Ltd.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]iven the similarity of the text of § 17(a) of the 1933 Act to that of Rule 10b-5, we conclude that if a private right of action exists under § 17(a), [plaintiff] has stated a claim upon which relief may be granted against [defendant] under that section as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not constitute [a] representation[ ] of fact that could be actionable under the securities laws”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Haddad
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.