Commerford v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1319 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Hollinger, Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. v. Tellabs Inc. (2008)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Desist v. United States · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc. · California ex rel. State Lands Commission v. United States · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no basis for believing that '[§] 20(a) was intended to narrow the remedies of customers of brokerage houses.... On the contrary [§] 28(a), 15 U.S.C. § 78bb, specifically enacts that the rights and remedies provided by the [19]34 Act shall be in addition to any and all rights and remedies that may exist at law or in equity.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Miller · in Re: Kent Miller“Every person who, directly or indirectly, controls any person liable under any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation thereunder shall also be liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such controlled person to any person to whom such controlled person is liable, unless the controlling person acted in good faith and did not directly or indirectly induce the act or acts constituting the violation or cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.