duPont v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 75 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Litton Industries, Inc. v. Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb Inc. (1992), Wilson v. Saintine Exploration & Drilling Corp. (1989)
11 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 Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Rochez Bros. v. Rhoades
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“generally indeterminable fact of what would have happened but for the omission [or the misrepresentations that skewed the market value of stock] would reduce the protection against fraud afforded by Section 10(b).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable investor might have considered them important in the making of [a] decision”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant can avoid liability under Rule 10b-5 for nondisclosure of material information [only] by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that disclosure of that information would not have altered the plaintiffs investment decision.”
2 later decisions 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.