Blinder, Robinson & Co. v. United States Securities & Exchange Commission’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1415 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc. (1990), Seymour v. Summa Vista Cinema, Inc. (1987)
22 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Butz v. Economou · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'admitting of specific relief through a decree of a conclusive character, as distinguished from an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.' The controversy must exist at all stages of the proceedings, 'not merely at the time the complaint is filed.' The relief sought must be capable of addressing the alleged harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In ordinary civil cases the rule is that after an appeal has been taken the district court retains jurisdiction to consider and deny a rule 60(b) motion and, if it indicates that it will grant the motion, the movant may then ask the court of appeals to remand the case so that the district court may act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not be penalized for the omissions of his own attorney would be visiting the sins of [that party's] lawyer upon the [opponent].”
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.