Bulgo v. Munoz’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 710 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Richardson v. Suzuki Motor Co. (1989), Chenault v. United States Postal Service (1994)
16 federal appellate · 5 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. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation · Alder v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prove fraud a plaintiff must establish that the defendant made false representations of material fact, intended to induce plaintiff to act, the representations were made with knowledge of, or reckless disregard for, their falsity, and the plaintiff justifiably relied upon those false representations to his detriment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n actionable misrepresentation must relate to fact and cannot be based on an expression of opinion or a prediction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... no action shall be brought for the recovery of the purchase price after five years from the date of the sale or after two years from the discovery of facts constituting the violations, but in any event after seven years from the date of the sale.”
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.